The Revolutionary records of the State of Georgia

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Revolutionary Records

OF THE

STATK OF GEORGIA

VOLUME I

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS,
MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS,
COUNCIL OF SAFETY,
PROVINCIAL CONGRESS,
CONSTITUTION OF 1777,
CONFISCATION AND BANISHMENT,
SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES,
1769 to 1782.

COMPILED AND PUBLISHED UNDER AUTHORITY
OF

THE LEGISLATURE

BY

ALLEN D. CANDLER

ATLANTA, GA.

THE FRANKLIN-TURNER COMPANY

PRINTERS, PUBLISHERS, BINDERS

1908

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PREFATORY NOTE.

The following compilation contains all authentic
records and documents relating to the Revolutionary
period of Georgia history that the compiler has been able
to find after a most careful, thorough and diligent search.
While it is not presented as a complete compilation, it
is believed that it contains most of the official records
made during the period of which it treats, certainly all
that are now in existence, and to supply the place of
original papers not now in existence, well authenticated
copies and extracts from contemporaneous publications
have been utilized.

That many official records of this important period,
once in existence, have been irretrievably lost, cannot be
doubted, because our early historians have made copious
extracts from many that cannot now be found. Among
the most valuable records known to have been lost and,
consequently, not now available for this compilation, are
the Minutes of the Executive Office up to the fourteenth
of January, 1778, the Journal of the proceedings of the
Constitutional Convention of 1776-7, not a vestige of
which, nor even a list of the names of the delegates who
sat in it, having been anywhere discovered, and the Jour
nals of the several sessions of the legislature held prior
to the seventeenth day of August, 1781. The destruction
of these Minutes and Journals was a serious and irrepara
ble loss. We have, however, the net result of the labors of
the convention and these legislative sessions in the Con-

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stitution of 1777, and the Acts of these legislatures, all
of which are included in this compilation.

Several causes conspired to bring about this ever to
be regretted loss of important records and documents.
First of all, when, in December, 1778, Savannah, the
seat of government, was captured by the British, all the
records of the state made prior to that time were also
captured and either carried away or destroyed, except
a few relating to the Office of the Secretary of State,
which were saved only by the vigilance of the incum
bent of the office, John Milton, who, disregarding the
orders of Governor Houstoun, conveyed his records
first to Charleston and then, when that city was threat
ened, to Newbern, North Carolina, and, finally, when that
state was invaded by the enemy, to Annapolis, where they
remained till after the close of the war.

Many records made after the fall of Savannah, during
the progress of the war, either fell into the hands of the
enemy and perished or were lost in transportation, from
place to place, in the effort to save them from destruc
tion; while the loss of such as are known to have sur
vived the war is probably mainly due to the careless
ness of historians and persons, who contemplated writing
histories and afterwards abandoned the idea, in borrow
ing them and never returning them to the Archives
Rooms of the Capitol. In this way it is positively known
some of them were lost.

Again, we have abundant reason to believe that during
the progress of the War for Independence, when a state
of semi-anarchy prevailed from the cessation of British
rule when the royal governor was arrested, and before

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the constitutional government was thoroughly established
in all of its departments, many things of an official char
acter were clone of which no written record was ever
made, and this condition of semi-anarchy prevailed in
the state during almost the entire period of the war,
for Governor Martin said in his inaugural address in Jan
uary, 1782, that then it could be said for the first time
that the government provided for in the constitution was
organized and in operation in all of its departments. One
of our most careful and painstaking historians, speaking
of the conditions which prevailed in the state at this
time, has said, "The government of Georgia during the
Revolutionary period was feeble, uncertain and peripa
tetic. Few records of this transition stage in the de
velopment of the state have been preserved, and they
are at best fragmentary and unimportant," and our re
search has established the truth of what he said.

Still, notwithstanding this paucity of official records,
due to the causes mentioned, much matter of an official
or semi-official character has been found which is of too
much interest to be omitted, and yet to include it in this
compilation, disjointed and disconnected as it is, without
explanation or comment, much of it would be almost, if
not quite, unintelligible. The compiler has therefore
deemed it not improper to include it in an introductory
with such comment and reference to contemporaneous
occurrences as seem necessary to weave all of it into a
connected narrative, and thus make it intelligible to the
reader.

Some of these scattered and disjointed papers thus
utilized have been found in the Archives Rooms and in

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out-of-the-way places in the Capitol, and others have
been copied from contemporaneous publications or
subsequent compilations, among the latter the Georgia
Historical Society's Compilations, White's Historical Col
lections, Force's Archives, Drayton's Memoirs, and a
few others, but everything which has been admitted is
believed to be of unquestioned authenticity.

INTRODUCTORY REMARKS.

At the beginning of the troubles which led up to the
War of the Revolution and the independence of the
British provinces in America, Georgia was the youngest,
the most remote, the most sparsely populated, the poorest
and, consequently, the least important of the thirteen.
She had not suffered as had other provinces from hostile
legislation, for no act of the British parliament of which
the other colonies complained had ever directly affected
her, save only the Stamp Act, which had never been en
forced within her borders; and while the founders of
the colony had relied largely on philanthropy for means
to plant and nourish the settlement, parliament had ap
propriated, out of the public treasury, many thousands of
pounds to promote its growth and prosperity. Her peo
ple, therefore, had but little to complain of, and much for
which to be grateful. She was, moreover, surrounded
by the savage allies of the royal government, and would,
consequently, suffer more at their hands in cases of war
than any of her sister colonies. Her Governor, Sir
James Wright, was an able man, not unpopular with his
people, for the province had prospered under his adminis
tration as it never had before, and all of his personal in
fluence and all the patronage of his high office were
used to prevent Georgia from joining the other colonies
in armed resistance to British aggression. The result
was that she was the last to join the confederation and
send delegates to the Continental Congress. So slow
was she in taking the final step that she was bitterly cen
sured, by some of her neighbors who did not realize
her dangerously exposed situation, for her hesitation,
and her nearest neighbor, South Carolina, passed a non-

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intercourse law prohibiting trade with the people of Geor
gia and denounced her as "that infamous colony/' But
the sturdy sons of Georgia, under the lead of Houstoun,
Bulloch, Walton, Habersham, and their coadjutors, real
izing their true situation and acting on the motto soon
after emblazoned on their escutcheon, "Wisdom, Justice,
Moderation," pursued the even tenor of their way until
it became apparent that reconciliation between England
and her colonies in America was no longer possible;
then they hesitated no longer, but, regardless of the
dangers to which they exposed themselves at the hands
of the savage allies of the royal government, the smoke
of whose wigwams could be seen on every side, put their
colony in line with her sisters, and, in consequence, suf
fered more in the conflict than the people of any other of
the revolted colonies. For twelve months before the de
claration of independence Georgia was in line and had
her delegates in the Continental Congress.

For ten years after the passage of the Stamp Act there
had been no inconsiderable uneasiness and apprehension
among the people o<f Georgia. Petitions and remon
strances were sent to the King to no purpose, and in
1769, a public meeting was held in Savannah, at which
Jonathan Bryan, a member of the King's Council in
Georgia, presided, and the following resolutions were
adopted and published : —

"We, inhabitants of Georgia, finding ourselves re
duced to the greatest distress and most abject condi
tion by the operation of several acts of the British Legis
lature, by means whereof our prosperity is arbitrarily
wrested from us, contrary to the true spirit of our Con
stitution and the repeatedly confirmed birthright of every
Briton ; under all these oppressions, finding that the
most dutiful and loyal petitions from the colonies for
redress of grievances have not answered the salutary

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purpose we intended, and being destitute of all hope of
relief from our multiplied and increasing distresses but
by our industry, frugality, and economy, firmly resolved
never to be in the least accessory to the loss of any privi
lege we are entitled to.

Therefore, we whose names are hereunto subscribed,
do solemnly agree and promise to and each other, that
until the said acts are repealed, we will most faithfully
abide by, and adhere to and fulfil the following resolu
tions :

i st. — That we will encourage and promote American
manufactures and of this Province in particular.

2nd. — That as the raising o>f sheep for the benefit of
wool will be of the utmost utility, we do therefore en
gage not to kill or sell any lambs that shall be yeaned be
fore the first of May in every year to any butcher or
other person whom we may have reason to think intends
to kill the same.

3rd. — That we will promote the raising of cotton and
flax, and encourage spinning and weaving.

4th. — That we will, upon no pretence, either -upon our
own account or commission, import into this province any
of the manufactures of Great Britain, or European, or
East India goods, other than may be shipped in conse
quence of former orders, except only negro cloth not
exceeding is. and 4 pence per yard, osnaburgs, canvass,
cordage, drugs, and hardware of all sorts, paper not ex
ceeding 10 shillings per ream, fire-arms, gunpowder,
shot, lead, flints, saltpetre, coals, printed books and
pamphlets ; white and striped flannels, not above 9 shil
lings per yard, white linen not above 15 shillings and 8
pence per yard, woollen and thread hose not exceeding
24 shillings 5 pence per dozen, striped cottons not ex-

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ceecling 13 shillings and 4 pence per yard, checks not
above 13 shillings and 3 pence per yard, felt hats not
above 48 shillings per dozen, bolting cloths, mill and
grind stones, cotton and wool cards, and wire thread not
above 8 shillings and 5 pence per pound, shoes not above
48 shillings per dozen; as also the following goods
necessary for the Indian trade, strouds, vermilion, beads,
looking-glasses, and paint ; and exclusive of these arti
cles, we do solemnly promise and declare that we will
immediately countermand all orders to our correspond
ents in Great Britain for shipping any goods, wares or
merchandise other than herein before excepted, and will
sell and dispose of the goods we now or hereafter may
have, at the same rate and prices as before.

5th. — That we will neither purchase or give mourning
at funerals.

6th. — That from and after the ist of June, 1770, we
will not import, buy or sell any negroes that shall be
brought into this Province from Africa ; nor after the
ist of January next, any negroes from the West Indies,
or any other place, excepting from Africa aforesaid;
and if any goods or negroes be sent to us contrary to our
agreement in this subscription, such goods shall be re-
shipped or stowed, and such negroes re-shipped from this
Province, and not by any means offered for sale therein.

7th. — That we will not import, on our own account, or
on commission purchase, from any masters of vessels,
transient persons, or non-subscribers, any wines after the
1 5th day of March next.

8th. — That we will not purchase any negroes im
ported, or any goods, wares, or merchandise, from any
resident of this province or transient person that shall
neglect to sign this agreement within five weeks from the
date thereof, except it appear he shall be unavoidably

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prevented from so doing; and every person signing and
not strictly adhering to the same, according to the true
intent and meaning thereof, and also every non-subscriber,
shall be looked upon as no friend to his country."

Xo move was made, however, looking to organized
resistance to British invasion of the constitutional rights
of the colonists until the I4th of July, 1774, when the
following publication appeared in the Georgia Gazette,
the only newspaper then published in the colony.

"The critical situation to which the British colo
nies in America are likely to be reduced from the
alarming and arbitrary imposition of the late acts of
the British parliament respecting the town of Bos
ton, as well as the acts that at present extend to the
raising of a perpetual revenue without the consent
of the people or their representatives, is consider
ed as an object extremely important at this critical
juncture, and particularly calculated to deprive the
American subjects of their constitutional rights and
liberties, as a part of the British Empire. It is
therefore requested that all persons within this prov
ince do attend at the liberty-pole at Tondee's Tavern,
in Savannah, on Wednesday the 27th instant, in
order that the said matters may be taken under con
sideration, and such other constitutional measures
be framed as may then appear to be most eligible."

NOBLE W. JONES,
ARCHIBALD BULLOCK,
JOHN HOUSTOUN,
GEORGE WALTON.

In response to this call a considerable number of the
leading men of Savannah and the surrounding country
met at the time and place indicated. Letters from the
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sylvania, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina and South
Carolina were read, and a motion was made and carried
tli at a committee be at once appointed to draw up and
submit resolutions defining the position of the people of
the province on the questions then engaging the earnest
attention of the provinces further north. The following
persons were named as the committee:—' John Glen,
John Smith, Joseph Clay, John Houstoun, Noble Wim-
berly Jones, Lyman Hall, William Young, Edward Tel-
fair, Samuel Farley, George Walton, Joseph Habersham,
Jonathan Bryan, Jonathan Cochran, George Mclntosh,
Sutton Banks, William Gibbons, Benjamin Andrew, John
Winn, John Stirk, Archibald Bulloch, James Screven,
David Zubley, Henry Davis Bourquin, Elisha Butler,
William Baker, Parmenus Way, John Baker, John Mann,
John Benefield, John Stacy and John Morel.

The persons present and participating in this meeting
were nearly all from the lower parishes, and most of them
from Christ's Church and Saint John's. The upper and
interior parishes were not represented, and it was there
fore deemed advisable to adjourn the meeting over to the
tenth of August, the chairman of the committee being
instructed to write in the meantime to all the parishes
inviting them to send delegates to the August meeting
equal in number to the representatives each was entitled
to in the Commons House of Assembly

The following is a copy of Mr. Glen's letter: —

2;th July, 1774.

GENTLEMEN, — At a very respectable meeting of
the inhabitants of this Province, held this day at
Savannah, for the purpose of concerting such meas
ures as may be proper to be pursued respecting cer
tain late acts of the British Parliament, it was, after
some business being entered upon, objected that

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many of the out parishes might not have a sufficient
notification of the intended meeting ; and therefore,

Resolved, That all further business be postponed
till the loth of August next, and that in the mean
time notice be given to the inhabitants of the several
parishes, in order to afford them an opportunity of
sending down deputies to deliver their sense upon
this very important occasion.

In pursuance of this resolve, I take the liberty, as
Chairman of the Committee to request you will
send gentlemen duly authorized to attend on behalf
of your parish at the next meeting. The number
expected to join the Committee is agreeable to the
number of representatives each parish sends to the
General Assembly. The Committee to meet you at
Savannah are : John Glen, John Smith, Joseph Clay,
John Houstoun, N. W. Jones, Lyman Hall, Wm.
Young, E. Telfair, Samuel Farley, Geo. Walton,
Joseph Habersham, Jonathan Bryan, Jonathan
Cochran, Geo. W. Mclntosh, - - Sutton, Wil

liam Gibbons, Benj. Andrew, John Winn, John
Stirk, A. Powell, James Beaven, D. Zubly, H. L.
Bourquine, Elisha Butler, Wm. Baker, Parmenus
Way, John Baker, John Mann, John Bennefield,
John Stacey, John Morell.

I am, dear Sir,

JOHN GLEN.

When the proceedings of this meeting \vere published
they gave rise to much alarm and excitement, especially
among the apologists for the arbitrary acts of the British
parliament and ministry. The royal governor, Sir James
Wright, called his council together to advise with them
as to what course he should pursue to quell the spirit of
rebellion which had been manifested. In his council was

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Jonathan Bryan, who had participated in the meeting of
the 1 4th of July. For this act of disloyalty a motion was
made to expel him from the council. The sturdy patriot
assured the council that this was unnecessary and at once
handed in his resignation, accompanied with language as
forcible as it was characteristic. All the other members of
the council remained steadfast to the King. After
Bryan's withdrawal the Governor and Council carefully
considered the situation and determined to try to over
awe the friends of liberty, and to this end the following
proclamation was published.

"GEORGIA.

By his Excellency Sir James Wright, Baronet, Cap
tain General, Governor and Commander-in-chief of
his Majesty's province of Georgia, Chancellor, Vice-
Admiral and Ordinary of the same.

A PROCLAMATION.

Whereas, I have received information that on Wednes
day the 27th day of July last past a number of persons
in consequence of a printed bill or summons issued and
dispersed throughout this province by certain persons
unknown did unlawfully assemble together at the watch-
house in the town of Savannah, under color or pretence
of consulting together for the redress of public griev
ances, or imaginary grievances, and that the persons so
assembled for the purpose aforesaid, or some of them,
are from and by their own authority by a certain other
hand bill issued and dispersed throughout the province,
and other methods endeavoring to prevail on his Majes
ty's liege subjects to have another meeting on Wednes
day, the loth instant, similar to the former, and for the
purpose aforesaid, which summons and meetings must
tend to raise fears and jealousies in the minds of his
Majesty's good subjects,

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And Whereas an opinion prevails and has been indus
triously propogated, that summonses and meetings of
this nature are constitutional and legal; in order there
fore that his Majesty's liege subjects may not be misled
and imposed upon by artful and designing men, I do, by
and with the consent of his Majesty's honorable Council
issue this, my proclamation, notifying that all such meet
ings of the people which may tend to raise fears and
jealousies in the minds of his Majesty's subjects, under
pretence of consulting together for redress of public
grievances, or imaginary grievances, are unconstitutional,
illegal and punishable by law. And I do hereby require
all his Majesty's liege subjects within this province to
pay due regard to this, my proclamation, as they will
answer the contrary at their peril.

Given under my hand the 5th day of August, etc.

JAMES WRIGHT.
By His Excellency's command

THOMAS MOODIE, Deputy Secretary.

God Save the King."

This proclamation had but little effect, but when the
tenth of August came the patriots assembled and the fol
lowing resolutions were adopted :

''Resolved, nomine contradicente, That his Majesty's
subjects in America owe the same allegiance, and are en
titled to the same rights, privileges, and immunities with
their fellow-subjects in Great Britain.

"Resolved, nemine contradicente, That, as protection
and allegiance are reciprocal, and under the British Con
stitution correlative terms, his Majesty's liege subjects
in America have a clear and indisputable right, as well

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from the general laws of mankind, as from the ancient
and established customs of the land, so often recognized,
to petition the throne upon every emergency.

"Resolved, neniinc contradiccntc, That an act of Par
liament, lately passed, for blockading the port and har
bor of Boston, is contrary to our idea of the British Con
stitution : First, for that it in effect deprives good and
lawful men of the use of their property without judg
ment of their peers : and, secondly, for that it is in na
ture of an ex post facto law, and indiscriminately blends,
as objects of punishment, the innocent with the guilty.
Neither do we conceive the same justified upon a prin
ciple of necessity ; for that numerous instances evince
that the laws and executive power of Boston have made
sufficient provision for the punishment of all offenders
against persons and property.

"Resolved, tie mine contradiccntc, That the act for
abolishing the charter of Massachusetts Bay tends to the
subversion of American rights ; for, besides those gen
eral liberties the original settlers brought over with them
as their birthright, particular immunities were granted
by such charter, as an inducement and means of settling
the province; and we apprehend the said charter cannot
be dissolved, but by a voluntary surrender of the people,
representatively declared.

"Resolved, nomine contradiccntc., That we apprehend
the Parliament of Great Britain hath not, nor ever had,
any right to tax his Majesty's American subjects; for
it is evident beyond contradiction, the Constitution ad
mits of no taxation without representation ; that they
are coeval and inseparable; and every demand for the
support of Government should be by requisition made to
the several Houses of Representatives.

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"Resolved, nemine contradicente, That it is contrary
to natural justice and the established law of the land, to
transport any person to Great Britain, or elsewhere, to
be tried under indictment for a crime committed in any
of the colonies, as the party prosecuted would thereby be
deprived of the privilege of trial by his peers from the
vicinage; the injured perhaps prevented from legal repa
ration, and both lose the full benefit of their witnesses.

"Resolved, nemine contradicente, That we will concur
with our sister colonies in every constitutional measure
to obtain redress of American grievances, and will by
every lawful means in our power maintain those inesti
mable blessings for which we are indebted to God and the
Constitution of our country — a Constitution founded
upon reason and justice, and the indelible rights of man
kind.

"Resolved, nemine contradicente, That the committee
appointed by the meeting of the inhabitants of this prov
ince, on Wednesday the 2/th of July last, together with
the deputies who have appeared here on this day from the
different parishes, be a general committee to act; and
that any eleven or more of them shall have full power
to correspond with the committees of the several prov
inces upon the Continent ; and that copies of these reso
lutions, as well as all other proceedings, be transmitted
without delay to the Committee of Correspondence in the
respective provinces."

The proclamation of Governor Wright having failed
to prevent the assembling of the people and the ex
pression of their opinions and determinations as to the
course they would pursue, he attempted to destroy the
effect of the example of those who had participated in
the meeting by showing that they were a mere minority
composed of malcontents and did not voice the senti-

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nieiits of the people of the colony. To this end he called
another meeting. About a third of the inhabitants in
and about Savannah, including the Governor's Council
and all his other officers, both civil and military, assem
bled and signed a protest against the action of the meet
ing of the tenth of August.

DISSENT TO THE RESOLUTIONS OF AU
GUST 10, 1774.

On the tenth instant, a meeting was held at Savannah,
to which several districts and parishes, particularly St.
Paul's, one of the most populous in the Province, sent no
deputies ; and although one Lord, and another person
attended as deputies from the parish of St. George, yet
upwards of 80 respectable inhabitants of that parish sent
down their dissent. Nor was the parish of Christ Church
represented at this meeting, unless the self-appointed
committee be considered as their representatives. The
measure left an opening for any to appear at the meet
ing in the character of deputies, who brought down an
appointment as such, without any inquiry whether they
were constituted by the majority of the parish or not.
Several artful falsehoods \vere thrown out to induce the
parishes and districts to send deputies. In the Parish of
St. George, it was said that the Stamp Act was to be
enforced : and in the parish of St. Matthew, the people
wTere told that nothing was intended but a dutiful peti
tion to the king, as the father of his people ; and to such
lengths were matters carried, that when some of the in
habitants of St. Matthew's parish discovered the decep
tion, and desired that they might scratch out their names
from the instrument appointing deputies — it was refused
them. Their adjournment from the 27th of July to the
tenth of August was general, and therefore it was natural
to suppose that the last meeting would be held at the

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Vendue house, the same place as the first ; for whenever
It is intended that a future meeting of any kind shall be
held at a different place than that which is usual, notice
is always given of the alteration of the place of meeting,
otherwise most of those who may be desirous of attend
ing, would not know where to go. In the present case
none knew that the second meeting would be held at a
different place than the first, except those few who were
in the secret. But the important meeting of the loth oi
August, in defence of the constitutional rights and liber
ties of American subjects, was held at a tavern, and it
was said, twenty-six persons, with the doors shut for a
considerable time, undertook to bind them by resolution ;
and when several gentlemen attempted to join, the tav
ern-keeper, who stood at the door with a list in his hand,
refused them admittance, because their names wrere not
mentioned in that list. Such was the conduct of these
pretended advocates for the liberties of America. Several
of the inhabitants of St. Paul's and St. George's, two of
the most populous, have transmitted their written dissent
to any resolutions, and there were gentlemen ready to
present their dissent, had not the doors been shut for a.
considerable time, and admittance refused. And it is
conceived that shutting the door and refusing admittance
to any but resolutioners, was calculated to prevent the
rest of the inhabitants from giving their dissent to meas
ures that were intended to operate as the unanimous
sense of the Province. Upon the whole, the world will
judge whether the meeting of the loth inst., held by a
few persons in a tavern, with doors shut, can, with any
appearance of truth or decency, be called a general meet
ing of the inhabitants of Georgia. Having now given
our reasons at large, we enter this our public dissent to
the said resolutions of the loth, and all the proceedings
had or to be had thereon, and do earnestly desire that

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such resolutions may not be taken as the sense of the
inhabitants of Georgia.

(Signed.)

James Habersham,

Lachlan McGillivray,
•/Josiah Tattnall,
''James Hume,

John Jamierson,

Tho. Johnston,

John Simpson,

James Robertson,
rAlex. Thompson,

Lewis Johnson,

John Irvine,

Anthony Stokes,

Edward Langworthy,

Joseph Butler,

Wm. Skinner,

James Mossman,

Henry Younge,

Philip Younge,

Tho. Moodie,

Philip Moore,

Jos. Ottolenghe,

Geo. Frazer,

John English,

David Montaigut,

James Read,

Wm. Moss,

Henry Younge, Jr.,

James Farley,

James Nicol,

Tho. Ross,

James Thompson,

Richard Wright,
John Patton,
John Hume,
James E. Powell,
Leonard Cecil,
Moses Nunes,
Andrew Robertson,
Henry Preston,
Robert Bolton,
Noble Jones,
James Habersham,
James A. Stewart,
Peter La Vein,*
John Mullryne,
John B. Garardiau.
Abraham Gray,
Robert Watt,
Alex. Wylly,
David Gray,
Wm. Moore,
Quintin Pooler,
Francis Knowles,
Geo. Finch,
Wm. Ross,
John Parkinson,
E. Jones,
John Graham,
Thomas Reid,
John Storr,
Wm. Brown, Jr.,
James Herriott,

*Peter I.aVein dissents, because he conceives that as an inhabitant of Christ
Church Parish he was not represented.

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John Lowery, Stephen Britton.

N. Wade, Geo. Henley,

Matthew 'Stewart, John Spencer,

Charles Younge, James Low,

Robt. Gray, Daniel Mclnnes,

James Dixee, Jonathan Holden,

Samuel Shepherd, Henry Forest,

Wm. Strothers, John Mills.
\Ym. Thompson,

The following persons in other districts of this parish
have subscribed hereunto :

Upon the Island of Skidaway, Geo. Barry, Charles W.
McKinon, Robert Reid.

In Vernonburgh, David Johnson, Geo. Dron, Na
thaniel Adams, Walter Denny, Peter Theis, Joseph Spen
ser. Henry Nungazer, John Campbell, George Nungazer,
James Noble, John Ranstaller.

The Governor, to swell as far as he could the number
of dissenters, sent his friends and hired agents through
out all the parishes to secure signers to similar papers
protesting against the action of the patriots. In this way
lie succeeded in securing the signatures of many timid
and ill informed persons who, when fully informed of
the real conditions, became the most zealous supporters
of the cause of the colonies. So anxious were the friends
and agents of the Governor to make it appear that a ma
jority of the people were on the side of the royal govern
ment, that it was said they forged to their papers of pro
test the names of minors and of many persons who had
been dead for years, so that the signatures to the pro
tests brought up from some of the parishes exceeded in
number the entire population of the parish. There was
but one newspaper published in the province at that time,
and it was under the domination of the Governor, and all

22 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

its power was wielded in the interest of the royal gov
ernment and against the popular cause. The following-
are some of these protests obtained by misrepresentation
and deception.

(Reprint from White's Historical Collections.)
Parish of St. Paul. (Now Richmond County.)

We, the inhabitants of Kyokee and Broad River set
tlements, do in this public manner think proper to de
clare our dissent and disapprobation to a certain paper
or handbill published and dispensed throughout the Prov
ince, entitled and called,

"Resolutions entered into at Savannah, on Wednes
day, the loth day of August, 1774, at a general meeting,
(as therein set forth,) of the inhabitants of this Prov
ince, to consider of the state of the Colonies in America."

For the following reasons : —

First, Because we look upon the said paper as a very
improper treatment of the inhabitants of the Province.
and of this Province in particular, for that we have been
well informed that the said meeting was not a public
one, as before advertised, it being held at the house of
Mr. Tondee, in Savannah, and that many respectable
persons were refused admittance.

Secondly, That the meeting was by no means a nu
merous one ; for where a question of the most serious
concern was put, there were only twenty-six persons that
gave their voices.

Thirdly, Because we from the beginning entirely dis
approved of the said meeting, and in consequence of our
disapprobation, we sent to Savannah a protest and rea-

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sons at large, which would have been presented at said
meeting, on Wednesday, the loth inst., had not a num
ber of gentlemen of honour and probity in Savannah
been refused admittance; and it is denied by a number
that there were any deputies from the Parish of Christ
Church legally appointed.

Poivrthly, Because we had no voice in said meeting,
and because we think that the said paper carries with it
unnecessary and unjust reflections on the honour and
justice of Kings, Lords and Commons.

For these and other reasons, we do solemnly protest
against the proceedings had on the loth inst., and do
entirely dissent from them.

James McFarland, J. P.,

Saunders Walker,

Daniel Marshall,

John Griffin,

Andrew Paull,

Aaron Sinquefield,

Edward Seed,

William Lamar,

Charles Jordan,

William Love,X

James Cox,

James Young,

Charles Hurd,

James Hill,

John Hill,

Joshua Hill,

Solomon Barfield,

John Kelly,

Giles Tillett,

John Truman,

Moses Powell,

William Wilden,
Henry Brewster,
Solomon Vickers,
William Few,
Niel Jackson,
George Cowin,
Daniel Walker,
John Buchanan^
David Sidwell,
Thomas Mills,
Charles Lea,
John Brady,
John Malthas,
D. Wright,
Robert Story,
Henry Golden,
John Howard,
John Anderson,
John Johnson,
Nicholas Mercer,
William Handley,

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Frederick Stump, R. Howard,

William Wright, Z. Lamar, Sen.,

Samuel Blair, M. Custino,

Samuel Smith, R. Gilgore.

Thomas Jackson, James Aycock,

E. Smith, George Neals, Sen.,
Samuel Morton, Moses Perkins,
William Halliday, Jeremiah Cloud,
John Smith, Noah Cloud,
William Barnard, Thos. Hooper,

F. Ashmore, Thomas Waters,
John Lloyd, George Simson,
Jacob Jones, Andrew Brown,
Jacob Winfred, Win. Dicks,

R. Balaman, William Thomas,

George Bagby, Samuel Whitaker,

N. Barnet, Jacob Bowes,

Mark Jones, A. Williams,

John Mitchell, E. Wilmore,

John Fuller, Sen., Benjamin Browne.
John Fuller, Jr.,

August 24, 1774.

(Reprint from White's Historical Collections.)

We, the subscribers, inhabitants of the Parish of St.
Paul, having understood that certain persons have at
tempted, and are now attempting to prevail on the good-
meaning and well-disposed people of this Province, to
enter into resolutions similar to those made in the Prov
ince of South Carolina, in order to counteract and ren
der ineffectual some late acts of the British Parliament
intended to reduce the people of Boston to a sense of
their duty : —

We do hereby, for ourselves and others, protest against

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any, and declare our dissent to any such resolutions, or
proceedings in any wise tending to express disloyalty to
our most gracious Sovereign, and the Lords and Com
mons of Great Britain, for the following reasons, viz. :—

First, Because we apprehend this mode of assembling
and entering into resolutions that arraign the conduct
of the King and Parliament, is illegal, and tends only to
alienate the affections, and forfeit the favour and pro
tection of a most gracious Sovereign, and to draw upon
this colony the displeasure of the Lords and Commons of
Great Britain.

Secondly, Because, if we have real grievances to com
plain of, the only legal and constitutional method of
seeking redress is, we apprehend, to instruct our repre
sentatives in Assembly to move for and promote a de
cent and proper application to his Majesty and the Par
liament for relief.

Thirdly, That as the inhabitants of this Province have
had no hand in destroying any teas, the property of the
East India Company, and, therefore, are not involved
in the same guilt with those of Boston, they can have no
business to make themselves partakers of the ill conse
quences resulting from such a conduct.

Thirdly, Because we understand that the Council and
Assembly of this Province have lately applied to his Maj
esty for assistance in case of an Indian war; and should
\ve enter into any such resolutions, we could not in jus
tice expect any such assistance, but would be counter
acting what they have done, and exposing the Province
to imminent danger.

Fourthly, Because the persons who are most active on
this occasion, are chiefly those whose property lies in or
near Savannah, and, therefore, are not immediatelv ex-

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posed to the bad effects of an Indian war; whereas, the
back settlements of this Province, and our parish in par
ticular, would most certainly be laid waste and depopu
lated, unless we receive such powerful aid and assistance
as none but Great Britain can give. For these and many
other reasons, we declare our dissent to all resolutions
by which his Majesty's favour and protection might be
forfeited.

Signed,

; James Grierson,
^ William Goodgeon,

Robert Bonner,

John Anderson,

Edward Barnard,

Andrew McLean,

John D. Hammerer,

John Dooly,

James Hill,

Barnard Heard,

Amos Stapler,

Charles Walker,

John McDuffie,

Giles Tillett,
Yjames Seymour,

Thomas Pace,

Richard Basley,

Samuel Tullett,

Wm. Redman,

Joel Cloud,

Wm. Miller,

Zechariah Lamar, Senr.,

Jacob Dennis,

Littleberry Bosticke,
Basil Lamar,
James Few,
Benjamin Webster,
Robert Honey,
Job Smith,
Wm. Barnard,
Wm. Mangum,
John Chapman,
Patrick Jarvis,
Joseph Maddock,
Jonathan Sell,
Robert Mackay,
Wm. Candler,
Devereaux Jarratt
Sherwood Bugg,
Isaac Low,
Peter Parris,
John Henderson,
Thomas Grierson,
John McDonald,
Francis Hancock.

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27

(Reprint from White's Historical Collections.)
Town of Wrightsborough. (Now McDuffie County.)

We, the inhabitants of the town of Wrightsborough
and places adjacent, understanding that fourteen persons
have drawn up several resolutions respecting the disputes
between Great Britain and the town of Boston, concern
ing the destroying of a quantity of tea, the property of the
East India Company, and have published them as the
act of the Province, and which we look upon as a great
imposition, having no knowledge of them 'till after they
were passed : therefore we do, in this public manner,
deny passing anv concerning them, and disapprove of
them altogether, such proceedings as a few acting for
the whole withe nt their knowledge, we apprehend being
contrary to the rights and privileges of every British
subject.

John Oliver, J. P.,
John Stubbs,
Isaac Vernon,
lasias Pewgate,
John Jones,

Thomas Wratson, Senr.,
David Baldwin,
Henry Ashfield,
Samuel Hart,
Alexander Ottery,
Jesse Margan,
Ellis Haines,
Aaron McCarter,
Stephen Bigshop,
Abram Louders,
James Oliver,
John Greason,
William Daniel,

Silas Pace,
Gereiom Wooddell,
Absalom Beddell,
William Foster,
John Glower,
Abraham Parker,
James Jenkins,
Oliver Matthews,
Edward Greene,
Joseph Jackson,
Joel Phillips,
Matthew Hobbs,
Joseph Haddock, J. P.
Thomas Ansly,
John Lindsay,
Abram Dennis,
Richard Webb,
Benjamin Ansly,

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REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

John Watson,
Robert Day,
Drtiry Rogers,
James Anglin
Jacob Watson,
Robert Cowin,
Lewis Powell,
Jacob Collins,
William Childre,
Robert Harper,
Jacob Dennis,
Nicholas White,
John Moor,
Joshua Sanders,
Robert Jenkins,
Robert Nelson,
Hillery Grey,
James Bishop,
John Fairchild,
John James,
Zackariah Phillips,
Edward Hill,
John Hill,
Joshua Hill,
John Davis,
Isaac Greene,
Samuel Sinquefield,
William Sinquefield,
Reuben Sherill,
Morris Callingham,
Joel Cloud,
John Stewart, Jun.,
John Lang,
James Ryan,
Henry Walker,
Peter Perkins,

Thomas Gilliland,
Uriah Odom,
Richard Hokitt,
Edward Hagen,
Joseph Kallensworth,
Abram Hilton,
William Michell,
John Evans,
John Evans, Jun.,
Peter Williams,
John Stewart,
Jonathan Sell,
William Welclen,
John Thompson,
Joseph Milieu,
William Penton,
Alexander Oliver,
Ambrose Holiday,
Abraham Johnston,
Nathaniel Jackson,
George Waggoner,
Robert Walton,
Walter Drummond,
Charles Dunn,
Ezekiel Millar,
John West,
John Hodgin,
Peter Cox,
Joseph Brown,
Henry Jones,
John Dennis,
Francis Jones,
Peter Weathers,
Timothy Jourdan,
Watkin Richards,
Abraham Davis,

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Gabriel Davis, Jacob Davis,

John Davis, Jonathan Sell, J. P. ;

Isaac Davis, Thomas Pace.
John Pirks,

(Reprint from IV kite's Historical Collections.)
Town of Augusta.

We, the inhabitants of the town and district of Au
gusta, think it incumbent upon us. in this public manner,
to declare our dissent from, and disapprobation of, cer
tain resolutions published in this gazette, of the I7th
instant, entered into on Wednesday, the loth day of
August, as it is there said, "At a general meeting of the
inhabitants of this Province," though, we are credibly
informed, that the said meeting, so far from being gen
eral, was not even numerous, and that one of our repre
sentatives, whom we had provided with a protest, and
our reasons at large, why we could not agree to any
resolutions expressive of disaffection or direspect to our
most Gracious King, or the Lords and Commons of
Great Britain, thought it improper to deliver said pro
test to a few people met privately at a tavern, having also
been told by some gentlemen coming from the place of
meeting, that they had been refused admittance.

We entirely dissent from the aforesaid resolutions, be
cause we apprehend upon this occasion our silence would
be construed into consent ; and a partial act of, and reso
lutions entered into by, some individuals, might be con
sidered as the general sense of the Province.

We, therefore, in duty to our King and country, and
ourselves, do hereby solemnly protest against any of the
proceedings of the aforesaid meeting, and declare our
entire dissent from the resolutions entered into at the

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same, as witness our hands at Augusta, this 3Oth clay of
August, 1774.

Robert Mackay, Martin Weatherford,

Andrew Johnstone, Abraham Spear,

Edward Barnard, John Lamar,

\Vm. Goodgeon, John Francis Williams,

James Gordon, Peter Parris,

James Grierson, John Bacon,

Frances Begbee, Sherwood Bugg,

Thomas Graham, Wm. Johnston,

Francis Pringle, Charles Clarke,

Donald Cameron, Moody Butt,

John Francis, Samuel Clerk,

Daniel Waistcoat, John Howell,

George Barnard, John Dooly,

Charles Walker, Thomas Grierson,

John Pratt, Robert Grierson,

William Matthews, Spencer Kelly,

Robert Bonner, John Leslie.
Ben jam iti Webster,

(Reprint from ]V kite's Historical Collections.)
Parish of St. George. (Now Burke County.)

We, the subscribers, inhabitants of the Parish of St.
George, in the Province of Georgia, do hereby publicly
declare that we entirely disagree to the paper containing
certain resolutions which were drawn up in the city of
Savannah, by some persons met there on the loth of
August, 1774; because, although many of us gave our
votes that Mr. Jones and Mr. Lord should go to the said
meeting, yet it was because we were told that unless we
did send some persons there, we would have the Stamp
Act put in force. By these and such like arguments, we
were prevailed upon to do what we did; but as we find

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31

we were deceived, and that the said meeting was in
tended to draw up a paper that we think reflects very im
properly upon our King and the Parliament, and may be
of had consequence to this Province, and can serve no
good purpose, we therefore declare that we do not ap
prove of the said paper; and we give our dissent in this
public manner.

Signed,

George Wells,
Peter Shand,
James Dayle,
Shadrach Barrow,
Daniel Thomas,
Gideon Thomas,
John Thomas,
Robert Henderson,
Francis Lewis Feyer,
John Red,
James Warren,
James Williams,
Samuel Red,
Alexander Berryhill,
Edmund Hill,
Charles Williams,
Thomas Pennington,
John Rogers,
John Anderson,
James Rae,
Joseph Gresham,
William Dayle,
Joseph Tilly,
Job Thomas,
Drury Roberts,
Joel Walker,
James Red,

William M. Norell,
John Kennedy,
Francis Stringer,
Paul McCormick,
Humphrey Williams,
John Greenway,
Robert Blaishard,
Hugh Irwin,
Thomas Carter,
James Brantley,
William Whethers,
John Catlett,
David Greene,
John Pettycrew,
William Callett,
John Ratten,
John Frier,
James Davis,
William Milner,
Elijah Dix,
Samuel Berryhill,
Thomas Red,
John Bledsoe,
Starling Jordan,
Patrick Dickey,
Zechariah Wimberly,
Stephen Lamb,

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Benjamin Warren,
Solomon Davis,
John Gray,
Francis Hancock,
Pleasant Goodall,
Wade Kitts,
Daniel Logan,
Myrick Davis,
John Roberts,
Robert Douglass, Sen.,
Jesse Scruggs,
Henry Mills,
Joseph Moore,
Amos Whitehead,
John Robinson,
Ezekiel Brumfield,
Jacob Sharpe,
William Moore,
William Godbe,
Richard Curton,
William Curton,
Philip Helveston,
Elias Daniel,
Ephriam Odom,
Benjamin Brantley,
Thomas Grey,
Jeremiah Brantley,
Thomas Greene,
John Burnsides,
John Forth,

Nathan Wrilliams,
Edward Watters,
John Stephens,
Frederick Francis,
Moses Davis,
Arthur Walker,
Amos Davis,
Jacob Lamb,
Allen Brown,
Joseph Allday,
James Doughs,
Landham Ashbury,
Charles Golightly,
John Howell,
Bud Cade,
James Moore,
John Whitehead,
John Sharpe,
Thomas Odom,
William Hobbs,
Clement Yarborough,
James Hunt,
Barnaby Lamb,
Seth Slockumb,,
Lewis Hobbs,
John Thomas, Sen.,
William Young,
John Tillman,
Caleb WThitehead,
Robert Cade.

(Reprint from White's Historical Collections.)
Parish of St. Matthew. (Now Effingham County.)

We who have put our names to this paper, inhabitants
of the Parish of St. Matthew, and Town of Ebenezer,

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think it necessary, in this public manner, to declare, that
about the 4th day of this instant, August, we were told
by certain persons, that we must send a petition home to
our King, in regard to the Bostonians, to beg for relief,
as a child begs a father, when he expects correction, and
that all those who would not join must sign their name,
that they might know how many would be in this parish,
and that should we decline what was recommended, we
must expect the Stamp Act imposed upon us. By these
and like flattering words, we were persuaded to sign,
but we find we are deceived, for, that the people who
met at Savannah, cm the loth inst., did not petition our
King, but made up a paper, which we think is very
wrong, and may incur the displeasure of his Majesty,
so as to prevent us from having soldiers to help us in
case of an Indian war. We, therefore, disagree entirely
to the said paper, and do hereby protest against any reso
lutions that are, or hereafter may be, entered into on this
occasion.

Signed by the following persons : —

Urban Buntz, John Heckel,

George Gnann, Solomon Zondt,

Jaher Hangletter, Jacob Guann,

John Paulus, Jacob Keiffer,

George Gruber, Christian Steiner,

Matthew Beidenback, John Remshart,

George Ballinger, Israel Luinenberger,

John Oexlin Rentz, Leonhart Kraus,

George Buntz, George Bechley,

John Pillager, Batlas Keiffer,

Henry Ludwig Buntz, Michael Mack, Jr.,

Jacob Metzger, Peter Fryermouth,

John Metzger, Solomon Prothero,
John Adam Fryermouth, John Grasentine,

John Feberl, Christopher Rattenberger

George Zettauer, Andrew Guann.

8 r r— vol 1

34 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

We, the subscribers, do hereby certify that we are
against resolutions, this 2d of Sept., 1774.—

Philip Dell, John Maurer,

Paul Pinck, George Maurer,

Mathew Meyer, Daniel Weitman,

Jacob Meyer, Martin Reylander.

These unfair and deceptive methods of the Governor
and the friends of the king and his cabinet only served to
make the friends of liberty more determined in their
resistance to the arbitrary and unjust acts of the British
government. In January, 1775, there was an election
for members of the Commons House of Assembly. There
were, in every parish and district, candidates favorable
to the royal government opposed by candidates in favor
of resisting the aggressions of the king and parliament.

The result of the election, in an overwhelming majority
of the parishes^ was favorable to the patriots, their candi
dates being elected by large majorities, and established
the fact beyond controversy that the majority of the
people of the province were favorable to resistance. The
Governor, in his address to the House, deplored the spirit
of rebellion which was so manifest in the province, and
predicted that the agitation of the questions of difference
between the people and the royal government would only
make bad matters worse, and threatened them with the
military power O'f the government if the agitation con
tinued. Among other things he said : "The alarming
situation of American affairs at this juncture makes it
highly necessary for me to say something to you on that
subject : and it is with the utmost concern that I see, by
every account, all the Colonies to the northward of us,
as far as Nova Scotia, in a general ferment, and some of
them in such a state as makes me shudder when I think
of the consequences which it is most probable will soon
befall them.

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"The unhappy disputes with the Mother Country are
now become of the most serious nature, and I am much
afraid the very extraordinary and violent measures adopt
ed and pursued will not only prevent a reconciliation,
but may involve all America in the most dreadful calami
ties.

"Gentlemen, I think myself very happy in having it in
my power to say that this Province is hitherto clear, and
I much hope by your prudent conduct it will remain so.

"Be not led away by the voices and opinions of men's
over-heated ideas. Consider coolly and sensibly of the
terrible consequences which may attend adopting resolu
tions and measures expressly contrary to law, and hostile
to the Mother Country, especially at so late a season,
when we may almost daily expect to hear the determina
tion of Great Britain on the matters in dispute, and there
fore I conceive can answer no purpose but that of throw
ing the Province into confusion : and I tremble at the
apprehension of what may be the resolution and declara
tion of the new Parliament relative to the conduct of the
People in some parts of America.

"You may be advocates for liberty : so am I, but in a
constitutional and legal way. You, Gentlemen, are legis
lators, and let me entreat you to take heed how you give
a sanction to trample upon law and government, and be
assured it is an indisputable truth that where there is no
law there can be no liberty. It is the due course of law
and support of Government which only can insure to you
the enjoyment of your lives, your liberties, and your
estates, and don't catch at the shadow and lose the sub
stance.

"I exhort you not to suffer yourselves to be drawn into
involving this Province in the distresses of those who
may have offended. We are in a very different situation

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and on a very different footing from the other Colonies.
Don't consider me as speaking to you merely as the
King's Governor of this Province. As such, Gentle
men, it is certainly my duty to support his Majesty's
just rights and authority and to preserve peace and good
order within my Government, and to contribute as much
as possible towards the prosperity and happiness of the
Province and people. Believe me when I tell you I am
at this time actuated by further motives than those only
of discharging my duty as the King's Governor. I have
lived amongst and presided over you upwards of fourteen
years and have other feelings. I have a real and affec
tionate regard for the People, and it grieves me to think
that a Province which I have been so> long in, and which
I have seen nurtured by the Crown at a vast expense to
the Mother Country, and grow up from mere infancy,
from next to nothing, to a considerable degree of ma
turity and opulence, should by the imprudence and rash
ness of some inconsiderate People be plunged into a
state of distress and ruin. We have been most happy in
(I hope) avoiding Scylla, and let me in the strongest
terms conjure you to steer clear of Charybdis."

The House in its reply was respectful but firm;. It
deplored the unhappy conditions that prevailed, professed
unabated loyalty to the Crown, and expressed the earnest
hope and desire that the government might yet see the
justness of the demands of the people of the American
provinces and redress their wrongs. The essence of its
reply is condensed in this paragraph : —

"We cannot," said the representatives, "be less affected
by and concerned for the present alarming situation of
affairs between Great Britain and America than your
Excellency. We must be equally insensible not to feel
our numerous grievances and not to wish them redressed.
It is that alone which every good American contends for.

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It is the enjoyment of our constitutional rights and
liberties that softens every care of life and renders ex
istence itself supportable. At the same time, in all our
proceedings we shall studiously avoid every measure that
shall not appear to us at once strictly consonant with our
duty to his Majesty and the interest, liberty, and welfare
of our constituents."

It will be borne in mind that this body was the royal
legislature, a part of the King's government in Georgia.

About the first of January, 1775, the people of Saint
Andrew's Parish assembled at Darien in a mass meeting,
or "congress'' as they called it, and adopted the following
declaration as expressing their views and determinations
at that crisis : —

Declaration of the people of St. Andrew's Parish (Da
rien) in January, 1775.

"Being persuaded that the salvation of the rights and
liberties of America depend, under God, on the firm union
of the inhabitants in its vigorous prosecution of the meas
ures necessary for its safety, and convinced of the neces
sity of preventing the anarchy and confusion which at
tend the dissolution of the powers of government, we,
the freemen, freeholders, and inhabitants of the Province
of Georgia, being greatly alarmed at the avowed design
of the ministry to raise a revenue in America, and shock
ed by the bloody scene now acting in the Massachusetts
Bay, do, in the most solemn manner, resolve never to
become slaves; and do associate, under all the ties of
religion, honor, and love of country, to adopt and en
deavor to carry into execution, whatever may be recom
mended by the Continental Congress, or resolved upon
by our Provincial Convention that shall be appointed, for
the purpose of preserving our Constitution, and opposing

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the execution of the several arbitrary and oppressive acts
of the British Parliament, until a reconciliation between
Great Britain and America, on constitutional principles,
which we most ardently desire, can be obtained ; and that
we will in all things follow the advice of our general
committee, to be appointed, respecting the purposes afore
said, the preservation of peace and good order, and the
safety of individuals and private property.

(Signed)

Lachn. Mclntosh,
Geo. Threadcraft,
Charles McDonald,
John Mclntosh,
Raycl. Demere,
Jiles Moore,
Samuel McCleland,
Peter Sallens, Jun.,
James Clark,
John Witherspoon, Jun.,
John Witherspoon,
John Fulton,
Samuel Fulton,
Isaac Cuthbert,
Isaac Hall,
Jones Newsom,

A. Daniel Cuthbert,
John Hall,

Jno. McCollugh, Sen.,
Jno. McCullugh, Jun.,
William McCullugh,
Reu. Shuttleworth,
John McCleland,
Richard Cooper,
Seth McCullugh,
Thomas King,
Paul Judton,
John Roland,
Pr. Suttleworth,
Joseph Stobe,
To. Bierry."

A few days after this, to wit, on the I2th of January,
1775, the "Darien Committee," chosen by the people,
adopted the following terse and emphatic declaration :

"In the Darien Committee, Thursday, January 12, 1775.

When the most valuable privileges of a people are in
vaded, not only by open violence, but by every kind of
fraud, sopistry, and cunning, it behooves every individual
to be upon his guard, and every member of society, like

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beacons in a country surrounded by enemies, to give the
alarm, not only when their liberties in general are at
tacked, but separately, least a precedent in one way affect
the whole: and to enable the collective wisdom of such
people to judge of its consequence, and how far their
respective grievances concerns all, or should be opposed
to preserve their necessary union — Every laudable at
tempt of this kind by the good people of this Colony, in
a constitutional manner, hath been hitherto frustrated,
by the influence and authority of men in office, and their
numerous dependents, and in every other natural and
just way, by the various arts they have put in practice.
.We, therefore, the Representatives of the extensive Dis
trict of Darien, in the Colony of Georgia, being now as
sembled in Congress, by the authority and free choice
of the inhabitants of the said District, now freed from
their fetters, do Resolve,

ist. That the unparalleled moderation, the decent, but
firm and manly conduct of the loyal and brave people of
Boston and Massachusetts Bay, to preserve their liberty,
deserves not only the applause and thanks of all America,
but also the immitation of all mankind. But, to avoid
all repetitions, we acquiesce and join in all the Resolu
tions passed by the Grand American Congress in Phila
delphia last October. We thank them for their sage
council and advice, and most heartily and cheerfully ac
cede to the Association entered into by them, as the wisest
and most moderate measure that could be adopted in our
present circumstances to reconcile and firmly unite Great
Britain and the Colonies, so indispensably necessary to
each other, by the surest and best basis — mutual interest.
But as the wisest Councils upon earth are liable to the
errours of humanity, and not withstanding our reverence
and partiality for that August Assembly, \ve beg leave
to differ in opinion from them, in charging the unjust
measures of the present and preceding Ministry, to a per-

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son qualified rather for a private than a publick station;
and as the resentment of his country men, on a former oc
casion, was raised by the illiberal and unjust abuse of
them, indiscriminately, for the faults of that man, we
humbly presume the renewing at this time, on so little
foundation, at least impolitick; being confident that ev
ery Member of that late, wise, patriotick, and truly hon
ourable Congress, from a principle of candour and jus
tice, will rather commend than blame our honest and
well meant freedom.

2nd. That in shutting up the Land Offices, with the
intention of raising our quit rents, and setting up our
Lands at publick sale, representation of the contract has
not been duly considered (and attended to) in all its con
sequences to this vast Continent : That it is a principal
part of the unjust system of politicks adopted by the
present Ministry, to subject and enslave us, and evidently
proceed from an ungenerous jealousy of the Colonies,
to prevent as much as possible the population of America,
and the relief of the poor and distressed in Britain and
elsewhere, for whom a kind Providence has opened a new
world from their merciless oppressor, when the old is
overrun with such Monsters ! That monopolizing our
Lands into few hands is forming and encouraging petty
tyrants to lord it over us, or reside in another part of the
world in extravagance, luxury and folly, by the fruit of
our labour and industry — such oppressions neither we
nor our fathers were able to bear, and it drove us to the
wilderness : And that all encouragement should be given
to the poor of every Nation by every generous Ameri
can.

3rd. That Ministerial Mandates, under the name of
Instructions, preventing the legal Representatives of the
people to enact laws suiting their own respective situation
and circumstances, are a grievance and more especially

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in this young Colony, where our internal police is not yet
well settled; and as a proof of the intention of these
restrictions, when time and opportunity offers, we point
out particularly, amongst many others of like nature, the
not suffering us to limit the term of our Assembly, or
passing a quit-rent law, to ascertain and fix the most
valuable part of our property.

4th. That an over proportion of Officers, for the num
ber of inhabitants, and paying their salaries from- Britain,
so much cost up to us by the Court parasites, and for
which we are so often charged with ingratitude, are in
truth real and great grievances, rendering them insolent,
and regardless of their conduct, by being independent of
the people who should support them according to their
usefulness and behavior, and for whose benefit alone they
were originally intended. That these exorbitant salaries,
which enable them all to act by Deputies, whilst they
wallow in luxury themselves, their combining to raise
their exorbitant and illegal fees and perquisites, by vari
ous arts, upon the subject, to an alarming height, are
more dangerous to our liberties than a regular Army;
having the means of corruption so much in their power,
the danger of which is imminently exemplified in the
present unhappy state of our brethren and fellow subjects
in Britain, and even in the late conduct of this Colony.
To prevent therefore as much as in us lies these direful
effects, we resolve never to choose any person to pub-
lick office, his Deputy, Deputy's Deputy, or any expectant^
to represent us in Assembly, or any other publick place,
in our election, hoping the example will be followed
throughout this Colony, and all America.

5th. To show the world that we are not influenced by
any contracted or interested motives, but a general phil
anthropy for all mankind, of whatever climate, language,
or complexion, we hereby declare our disapprobation and

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abhorrence of the unnatural practice of Slavery in
America, (however, the uncultivated state of our coun
try, or other specious argument may plead for it,) a
practice founded in injustice and cruelty, and highly dan
gerous to our liberties, (as well as lives,) debasing part
of our fellow creatures below men, and corrupting the
virtue and morals of the rest, and is laying the basis of
that liberty we contend for (and which we pray the
Almighty to continue to the latest posterity) upon a very
wrong foundation. We therefore resolve, at all times
to use our utmost endeavours for the manumission of our
Slaves in this Colony, for the most safe and equitable
footing for the masters and themselves.

6th. That we do hereby choose Messrs

to represent us for this District, in the Provincial Con
gress at Savannah, the i8th instant, or at any other time
and place appointed hereafter, for the space of one year
from this day, and that a copy of these our Resolutions
be given them as expressing the sense of this District of
publick grievances, which will serve for their direction
and instructions; and it is further our desire, that our
said Deputies shall use their endeavours to send two dele
gates from this Colony to the General Continental Con
gress, to be held at Philadelphia next May."

On the 1 8th of January, 17/5, a Provincial Congress
met at Savannah. On the same day the legislature was
convened in the same town by Governor "Wright with the
hope of controlling, or at least toning down, by the pres
ence of the royal legislature, the action of the Provincial
Congress. In the congress only five of the twelve parishes
were represented ; in the House of Assembly every parish
was represented.

Less than half of the parishes being represented, the
Congress felt that it could not assume to speak for the

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entire province. The members therefore contented them
selves with electing Noble Wimberly Jones, Archibald
Bulloch and John Houstoun to represent the province in
the Continental Congress, and urging the Commons
House of Assembly to adopt a series of resolutions pre
pared and adopted by themselves, which were very similar
to, but not identical with, those adopted by the provinces
already in the confederation. While the House of As
sembly was patiently considering the appeal of the Prov
incial Congress, and doubtless would have adopted its
suggestions and put Georgia practically in line with the
other provinces, Governor Wright, to prevent such ac
tion, adjourned the legislature till the 9th of May,
but when that time arrived, no quorum of the House ap
pearing, he adjourned it to the 7th of November. When
that time arrived the province wras under the complete
control of the revolutionists, no quorum for the transac
tion of public business could be secured, and the Gov
ernor realized that further effort at legislation was use
less, and royal Government in Georgia, was, at least for
a time, at an end.

The following are the resolutions adopted and signed
by the members of the Provincial Congress, which thev
urged the Commons House of Assembly to also adopt : —

(From White's Historical Collections.)

Association entered into by forty-five of the Deputies as
sembled in Provincial Congress, at Savannah, in Geor
gia, on the 1 8th of January, 1775, and by them sub
scribed on the 2$rd, when they chose NOBLE WIM
BERLY JONES, ARCHIBALD BULLOCH, and
JOHN HOUSTOUN, Esquires, Delegates to represent
that Colony in the Continental Congress, to be held in
May next.

Whereas, a non-importation, non-consumption, and

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non-exportation agreement, faithfully adhered to, will
probably prove the most speedy, effectual, and peaceable
measure to obtain redress of American grievances, we do
therefore, for ourselves and our constituents, firmly agree
and associate under the sacred ties of virtue, honour, and
love of our country, as follows :

First. — That we will not receive into this Province any
goods, wares, or merchandise that shall be shipped from
Great Britain or Ireland after the I5th day of March
next, or from any other place any such goods, wares or
merchandise as shall be shipped from these kingdoms
after that time, except such as come under the rules and
directions of the Ninth Article herein mentioned ; and
except such goods, wares or merchandise as are abso
lutely necessary for carrying on the Indian trade, subject,
nevertheless, to the control of the Continental Congress
intended to be held at Philadelphia on the loth day of
May next. Nor will we, from this day, import or pur
chase any tea from any port in the world, or import any
molasses, syrup, coffee, or pimento, from the British
Plantations, or from Dominica; nor wines from Madeira
or the Western Islands, nor foreign indigo.

Second. — That we will neither import nor purchase
any slaves imported from Africa or elsewhere, after the
1 5th day of March next.

Third. — That we will not export any merchandise or
commodity whatsoever to Great Britain or Ireland, or to
the West Indies, after the first day of December next,
except rice to Europe.

Fourth. — Such as are merchants, and use the British
and Irish trade, will give orders, as soon as possible, to
their factors, agents, and correspondents in Great Britain
or Ireland, not to ship any goods to them on any pre-

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tence whatsoever, as they cannot be received in Georgia ;
and if any merchant residing in Great Britain or Ireland
shall, directly or indirectly, ship any goods, wares, or
merchandise for this Province, in order to break such non
importation agreement, or any manner contravene the
same, on such unworthy conduct being well attested, it
ought to be made public; and on the same being so done,
we will not from thenceforth have any commercial con
nection with such merchant.

Fifth. — That such as are owners of vessels, will give
positive orders to their captains or masters, not to receive
on board their vessels any goods prohibited by the said
non-importation agreement, on pain of immediate dis
mission from their service.

Sixth. — We will use our utmost endeavours to improve
the breed of sheep, and increase their number to the
greatest extent, and, to that end, will kill them as spar
ingly as may be, especially those of a most profitable kind ;
nor will we export any to the West Indies, or elsewhere;
and those of us who are, or may become, overstocked
with, or can conveniently spare any sheep, will dispose
of them to our neighbours, especially to the poorer sort,
on moderate terms.

Seventh. — That we will, in our several stations, en
courage frugality, economy, and industry, and promote
agriculture, arts, and the manufactures of America,
especially those of wool ; and will discountenance and
discourage every species of extravagance and dissipation,
especially horse-racing, and all kinds of gaming, cock-
fighting, exhibition of shows, plays, and other expensive
diversions and entertainments; and on the death of any
relation or friend, none of us or our families will go into
any further mourning dress than a black crape or ribbon
on the arm or hat, for gentlemen, and a black ribbon and

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necklace, for ladies ; and we will discontinue the giving
of scarfs and gloves at funerals.

Eighth. — That such are are venders of goods and mer
chandise, will not take advantage of the scarcity of goods
that may be occasioned by this Association, but will sell
the same at the rates they have been accustomed to do
for twelve months last past; and if any vender of goods
or merchandise shall sell any goods on higher terms, or
shall in any manner, or by any devise whatsoever, violate
or depart from this agreement, no person ought, nor will
any of us, deal with any such person, or his or her factor
or agent, at any time thereafter, for any commodity
whatsoever.

Ninth. — In case any merchant, trader, or other person,
shall receive any goods or merchandise which shall be
shipped after the I5th day of March, and before the I5th
day of May next, the same ought forthwith, at the elec
tion of the owner, to be either re-shipped or delivered to
the Committee of the town, parish, or district wherein
they shall be imported, to be stored, at the risk of the
importer, until the non-importation agreement shall cease,
or be sold, under the direction of the Committee afore
said ; and in the last-mentioned case, the owner or owners
of such goods shall be reimbursed, out of the sales, the
first costs and charges, the profit, if any, to be applied
towards relieving such poor inhabitants of the town of
Boston as are immediate sufferers by the Port Bill ; and
a particular account of all goods so returned, stored, or
sold, to be inserted in the public papers ; and if any goods
or merchandise shall be shipped after the said I5th day
of May next, the same ought forthwith to be sent back
again, without breaking any of the packages thereof.

Tenth. — That a Committee be chosen in every parish,
town, and district, by those who contribute towards the

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general tax, whose business it shall be attentively to ob
serve the conduct of all persons touching this Associa
tion; and when it shall be made to appear to the satis
faction of the majority of any such Committee, that any
person within the limits of their appointment has violated
this Association, that such majority do forthwith cause
the truth of the case to be published in the Gazette; to
the end that all such foes to the rights of British America
be publickly known and universally condemned, as the
enemies of American liberty; and thenceforth we will
respectively break off all dealings with him or her.

Eleventh. — That the Committee of Correspondence do
frequently inspect the entries of the custom-house, and
inform the Committees of the other Provinces, from time
to time, of the true state thereof, and of every other ma
terial circumstance that may occur relative to this Asso
ciation.

Tzvelfth. — That all manufactures of this Province be
sold at reasonable prices, so that no undue advantages
be taken of a future scarcity of goods.

And we do solemnly bind ourselves and our con
stituents, under the ties aforesaid, to adhere to this As
sociation until American grievances are redressed.

The foregoing Association being determined upon by
Congress, was ordered to be subscribed by the several
members thereof, and thereupon we have hereunto set
our respective names accordingly.

In Congress, Savannah, Georgia,
January 23, 1775.

Glen, Chairman, Ambrose Wright,

Noble W. Jones, Peter Tondee,

Samuel Farley, Thomas Lee,

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William Young, Joseph Habersham,

Philip Box, D. Zubly, Jr.,

William Evans, James De Veaux,

George Walton, Joseph Clay,

John vStirk, Francis H. Harris,

Isaac Young, Samuel Elbert,

Robert Rae, Henry Jones,

Robert Hamilton, George Houstoun,

Edmund Bugg, Edward Telfair,

Samuel Germany, William Gibbons,

John Wereat, Peter Bard,

Jonathan Cochran, William Glascock,

George Mclntosh, John Germany,

Raymond Demere, L. Marbury,

William Jones, Hugh Middleton,

James Cochran, William Lord,

Joseph Gibbons, John Mann,

John McClure, David Lewis,

Archibald Bulloch, George Wyche.
John Houstoun,

While the Commons House of Assembly, mindful of
the peculiarly exposed situation of Georgia, was prud
ently and carefully considering the resolutions adopted
by the Provincial Congress and urged by that body upon
it for its adoption, Governor Wright, to prevent favor
able action, precipitately adjourned the Assembly, but
before he did so the House had adopted the following
bold and unequivocal declarations : —

(From White's Historical Collections.)

HOUSE OF ASSEMBLY, GEOV January, 1775.

The House, taking under consideration that the Par
liament of Great Britain claims a power of right to bind
the people of America by statute, in all cases whatsoever,

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and who have in some acts expressly imposed taxes on
the Americans, under various pretences, but in fact for
the purpose of raising a revenue; hath established a
Board of Commissioners with unconstitutional powers,
and extended the jurisdiction of the Courts of Admir
alty, not only for collecting the duties imposed by the
said acts, but for the trial of causes merely rising within
the body of a county. And whereas standing armies have
been, and now are, kept in America in time of profound
peace ; and being resolved in Parliament, that, by force
of a statute made in the thirty-fifth year of the reign of
Henry the Eighth, colonists may be transported to Eng
land and tried there upon accusations for treason, mis
prisons, or concealments of treasons committed in the
colonies : and, by a late statute, such trials have been
directed in cases therein mentioned. And whereas, also,
assemblies have been frequently dissolved, contrary to
the rights of the people, when they attempted to deliberate
on the grievances : Therefore, this House doth, as Eng
lishmen, their ancestors, in like cases have usually done,
for assisting and vindicating their Rights and Liberties —
Declare : —

First. — That the inhabitants of the English Colonies
of North America, by the immutable laws of nature, the
principles of the English Constitution, and the several
charters or compacts, have the following Rights :

Secondly. — That they are entitled to life, liberty and
property, and they have never ceded to any sovereign
power whatever a right to dispose of either, without their
consent.

Thirdly. — That our ancestors, that first settled these
colonies, were, at the time of their emigration from the
mother country, entitled to all the rights, liberties, and

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immunities of free and natural-born subjects within the
realm of England.

Fourthly. — That by such emigration the}' by no means
forfeited, surrendered, or lost any of these rights, but
that they were, and their descendants now are, entitled
to the exercise and enjoyment of all such of them as their
local and other circumstances enable them to exercise
and enjoy.

Fifthly. — That the foundation of English liberty, and
of all free government, is a right in the people to par
ticipate in the legislative council ; and as the English
colonists are not represented, and from their local and
other circumstances cannot properly be represented in
the British Parliament, they are entitled to a free and
exclusive power of legislation, in their several provincial
legislatures, where their right of representation can alone
be preserved in all cases of taxation and internal policy,
subject only to the negative of their sovereigns, in such
a manner as has been heretofore used and accustomed ;
but from the necessity of the case, and a regard to the
mutual interest of both countries, we cheerfully consent
to the operation of such acts of the British Parliament as
are bona fide restrained to the regulation of our external
commerce, for the purpose of securing the commercial
advantages of the whole Empire to the mother country
and the commercial benefits of its respective members,
excluding every idea of taxation, internal or external,
for raising a revenue on the subjects in America without
their consent.

Sixthly. — That the respective colonies are entitled to
the common law of England, and more especially to the
great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their
peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that
law.

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Seventhly. — That they are entitled to the benefit of
such of the English statutes as existed at the time of their
colonization, and which they have by experience respec
tively found to be applicable to their several local and
other circumstances.

Eighthly. — That his Majesty's colonies are likewise
entitled to all the immunities and privileges granted and
confirmed to them by royal charters, or secured by their
several codes of provincial laws.

Ninthly. — That they have a right peaceably to as
semble and consider of their grievances, and petition the
King, and that all the prosecutions, prohibitory proclama
tions, and commitments for the same" are illegal.

o

Tenthly. — That the keeping a standing army in these
colonies in time of peace, without the consent of the leg
islature of that colony in which such army is kept, is
against law.

Eleventhly. — And as it is indispensably necessary to
good government, and rendered essential by the English
Constitution, that the constituent branches of the legis
lature be independent of each other—

RESOLVED, That the exercise of legislative power in any
colony, by a council appointed during pleasure by the
Crown, may prove dangerous and destructive to the free
dom of American legislation.

All and each of which the Commons of Georgia, in
General Assembly met, do claim, demand, and insist on
as their indubitable rights and liberties, which cannot
be legally taken from them, altered, or abridged, by any
power whatsoever, without their consent.

And, whereas, there are many infringements and viola-

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tions of the foregoing rights, which, from an ardent
desire that harmony and mutual intercourse of affection
and interest may be restored, we pass over for the present,
and proceed to state such acts and measures as have been
adopted since the close of the said war, which demon
strates a system formed to enslave America.

RESOLVED, That the following acts of Parliament are
infringements and violations of the rights of the colonists,
and that the repeal of them is essentially necessary, in
order to restore harmony between Great Britain and the
American Colonies — viz. : The several acts of 4 George
the Third, chapter 15 and chapter 34; 5 George the
Third, chapter 25; 6 George the third, chapter 52; 7
George the Third, chapter 41 and chapter 46; 8 George
the Third, chapter 22, which imposes duties for the pur
pose of raising revenue in America — extend the powers
of the admiralty courts beyond their ancient limits — de
prive the American subjects of trial by jury — authorize
the judge's certificate to indemnify the prosecutor of
damages that he may otherwise be liable to — requiring
oppressive security from a claimant of ships and goods,
seized before he shall be allowed to defend his property—
and are subversive of American rights.

Also, 12 George the Third, chapter 24, entitled "An
Act for the better securing his Majesty's Dock-yards,
Magazines, Ships, Ammunition, and Stores," which de
clares a new offence in America, and deprives the Ameri
can subjects of a constitutional trial by jury of the
vicinage, by authorizing the trial of any person charged
with committing any offense described in the said act out
of the realm, to be indicted and tried for the same in any
shire or county within the realm.

Also, the three acts passed in the last session of Par
liament, for the stopping the port and blocking up the

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harbour of Boston : for altering the charter and govern
ment of Massachusetts Bay, and that which is entitled
"An Act for the better administration of justice," &c.

Also, the act passed in the same session, for establish
ing the Roman Catholic Religion in the Province of
Quebec, abolishing the equitable system of English laws,
and erecting a tyranny there, to the great danger from so
total a dissimilarity of religion, la\v and government to
the neighbouring British Colonies, by the assistance of
whose blood and treasure the said country was conquered
from France.

Also, the act passed in the same session, for the better
providing suitable quarters for officers and soldiers in
his Majesty's service in North America.

Also, that the keeping a standing army in several of
these colonies, in time of peace, without the consent of
the legislature of that colony in which said army is kept,
is against law.

RESOLVED, That the thanks of this House be given to
the members of the late Continental Congress, for their
wise and able exertions in the cause of American Liberty.

RESOLVED, That be Deputies to represent

this Province in the intended American Continental Con
gress proposed to be held in the City of Philadelphia on
the loth of May next, or any other place or time as may
hereafter be agreed on by the said Congress.

ORDERED, That Mr. Speaker do transmit a copy of the
.above resolves to the Honourable Peyton Randolph, Esq.,
President of the said Congress.

After this severe arraignment of the British govern
ment for the unconstitutional and arbitrary acts of its

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parliament and ministers, the House of Assembly, appre
hensive of the danger that might follow precipitate action
in joining the confederacy of colonies, hesitated to take
the final step, and was adjourned by Governor Wright
before it took it. This prudent and conservative course
met the approval of the people of all the parishes except
Saint John. The people of this parish, mostly New
Englanders or of New England origin, sympathizing
with their kindred and friends in Boston and Massachu
setts, were greatly displeased at the non-action of the
Commons House of Assembly and first endeavored to
get into the confederation and secure its recognition by
seceding from Georgia and joining South Carolina. On
the day on which the Provincial Congress met, January
1 8th, the delegates from the parish of Saint John met
in caucus and from the Journal of their proceedings the
following extracts are made : —

(Reprint from Force's Archives.)

Wednesday, January 18, 17/5.

The Committee* met and Doctor Lyman Hall took the
Chair.

The following Message was sent to the Committee
of the several parishes in Congress sitting

"Gentlemen : The Committee of the Parish of S^.
John, present the Committees of the other Parishes with

*The word " Committee " as employed here and elsewhere in the proceedings
of parish and town meetings means the delegation, the whole body of delegates,
elected by the people of the town, district or parish to represent them in the
Provincial Congress.

It will be observed that the delegates from Saint John did not take their
seats in this Provincial Congress at all, but organized themselves into a separate
body and attempted to coerce the delegates from the other parishes and dictate
to them. Failing in this, they went home and attempted to withdraw from
Georgia and join South Carolina, whose committee denounced Georgia as "that
infamous colony," and thus the doctrine of secession was born of the New Eng
land inhabitants of Saint John's Parish in Georgia before the government of the
United States was formed.

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a copy of the Letter received by them from the late Con
tinental Congress, and, agreeably to the advice therein
contained, the inhabitants of the Parish of St. John have
acceded to the General Association entered into and
recommended by the said Continental Congress. They
hope you will adopt the same measures."

Having received from the congress no reply to this
communication, the delegates from St. John, on Friday
the 2Oth of January, sent this additional message to the
congress in which sat the delegates from the other
parishes.

"Gentlemen : On the first day of your meeting we
presented you with a Message, acquainting you that the
inhabitants of the Parish of St. John had acceded to the
General Association entered into, and particularly recom
mended to them by the late Continental Congress. We
have patiently waited your answer, and wish to impute
your silence rather to inattention than design. \Ye now
assure you, that if you think proper to enter fully into
the measures of the late Continental Congress, we will
heartily join you in every thing that may tend to enforce
them."

The Committee of the several Parishes met in Con
gress, sent the following answer thereto :

"Gentlemen In answer to your Message of this morn
ing, we beg leave to inform you of three determinations,
from which, this Congress, we hope, will never recede.

First. That we shall be glad to have the Province
upon this occasion, as fully represented as possible; and
will therefore cheerfully receive the Delegates of St.
John's Parish, as a part of us.

Secondly. That we apprehend every Delegate here,

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is accountable to his Constituents and his own conscience,
for the opinion he gives at this time; and therefore,
ought not to let any other man, or set of men. judge for
him.

Thirdly. That we trust no Member amongst us has
any other object in view than the publick good.

Saturday, January 2ist, 17/5.

The Committee for St. John met, and came to the fol
lowing resolutions :

RESOLVED, That the Committees of the several Parishes
in Congress now sitting, are not. or cannot be, called a
Provincial Congress; as, the greater number of the
Parishes in this Province, are not represented therein.
They therefore are not bound by the proceedings of
the said Committees, although they may arrogate to
themselves such a power.

RESOLVED, That as the Committees of the several
Parishes in Congress now sitting, have not fully ap
proved of, and adopted the measures entered into, and
recommended by the late Continental Congress ; this
Committee cannot join them, without violating the gen
eral association, which they have already acceded to;
and betraying the trust reposed in them, by their con
stituents.

And then, the Committee adjourned sine die.

The above Extracts, taken from the original Minutes
by

JOSEPH WOOD, Secretary."

Because of the non-action of the Georgia Provincial
Congress on the demand of St.- John that it at once enter

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into the confederation of the other provinces, both the
Parish of St. John and the province of South Carolina
became very indignant, and on the 8th of February, i/75>
the "General Committee" of South Carolina adopted and
published the following:

(Reprint from Force's Archives.)

In General Committee.
Charlestovrn, South Carolina, February 8, 1/75.

Inasmuch as the Colony of Georgia hath not acceded
to the Continental Association entered into by the Gen
eral Congress at Philadelphia, on the 2Oth of October
last ; therefore, and in conformity to the Resolutions of
the said General Congress,

Resolved, That we will, from henceforth, have no
Trade. Commerce, Dealings, or Intercourse, with the said
Colony of Georgia; but will hold them as unworthy of
the rights of freemen, and as inimical to the liberties of
their country : provided that this Resolution shall not be
construed to extend to the inhabitants of this Colony now
having Plantations in Georgia, so as to prevent them
from bringing their Crops into this Colony; or to such
persons resident in this Colony as now have debts due
to them in Georgia, so as to prevent them from receiving
payment of such debts there, in money, or in the com
modities of that Colony, they having such commodities
shipped from thence to Europe.

Ordered. That copies of the above resolution be trans
mitted to all the Northern Colonies.

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February 16, 1775.

Resolved, That the persons residing in this Colony,
who hold Plantations in Georgia, may, under the inspec
tion of the Committee of Observation, send necessaries
from hence for the use of those Plantations, without the
same being deemed a violation of the Resolution of tin's
Committee, of the 8th instant, respecting the Colony of
Georgia.

Failing to coerce the delegates from the other parishes
represented in the Provincial Congress into precipitate
action, and encouraged by the proceedings of the General
Committee at Charleston, St. John attempted to secede
practically from Georgia and join South Carolina and
thus get into the confederation of provinces and protect
her trade. Her mode of procedure in this effort and its
result will appear in the following extracts: —

St. John's Parish, Georgia.

On Thursday evening the 23d February, 1775, Joseph
Wood, Esq., Mr. Daniel Roberts, and Mr. Samuel Stev
ens, three members of the Committee for the Parish of
St. John, in Georgia, arrived in Charlestown, South Caro
lina, deputed to wait on the General Committee there,
with the following Letter and account of the Proceed
ings of the patriotick Inhabitants of the said Parish, in
the present critical situation of American affairs, viz :

At a Meeting in the Parish of St. John and Province
of Georgia, on the 9th of February, 1/75:

Letter from this Committee to the Committee of Cor
respondence in Charlestown, South Carolina, was agreed
on and written.

It was then moved and agreed that some person or

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persons of this Committee do wait on the Committee in
Charlestown with the said Letter.

Accordingly, Messrs. Daniel Roberts and Samuel
Stevens, and Joseph Wood, Esquire, were appointed and
authorized to present the same, and transact such matters
relative thereto as shall seem prudent and necessary.

Taken from the [Minutes by order of the Chairman, and
certified by,

BENJAMIN BAKER, Clerk.

The Committee from St. John's to the Charleston
Committee.

Gentlemen : We, the Committee of the Parish of St.
John, take the earliest opportunity to lay before you the
several steps taken by this Parish, to conform, as near
as possible, to the Resolutions entered into by the other
Provinces, and the measures now adopted for carrying
into execution the Continental Association. As it was
particularly recommended to us, we readily embraced
those measures,* by subscribing an Agreement to accede
to the General Association, on condition "that Trade and
Commerce might be continued to us with the other Prov
inces," and we should immediately have sent it to you
for your approbation, but were delayed by a summons
to attend a Provincial Congress at Savannah, the iSth
of January last, for the purpose, as we understood, of a
General Association with the other Provinces, and for
choosing Delegates to attend at the next Continental Con
gress, to be held at Philadelphia, in May next. We met
at that time and place, and acquainted the Committees
of the other Parishes then assembled, that the inhabi
tants of this Parish had acceded to the General Associa-

*On the first of December last.

60 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

tion on the above nientioned conditions, and earnestly
recommended the same to them. They did enter into an
Association, (a copy of which we transmit to you) but
so different in our opinions from the Continental Associa
tion, that it appears to be a. contravention of it, and ex
poses them to the censure of the fourteenth clause of the
General Association.

First. They have extended the time limited for Ex-
portations, beyond what is allowed by the Continental
Congress, and thereby indulged a liberty of Exportations,
to the prejudice of the other Provinces.

Secondly. For that, in their limited time of Impor
tations, they have, contrary to the Continental Associa
tion, extended it in general to the I5th of March next,
for Goods to be shipped in England, and for the Indian
trade to a still greater latitude, under the cloak of which
we have reason to believe may be introduced a large im
portation, equally adapted to the Whites as to the In
dians ; and, on the whole, such as we could not, con
sistent with our own Association, possibly join in.

Had they acceded fully to the General Association,
even at so late a time as our Provincial Congress, we
should have had no occasion to trouble you with this
address ; but, as they did not, we now apply to you to
admit us, the subscribers of this Parish, to an alliance
with you, requesting that you will allow trade and com
merce to be continued to us, exclusive (if you think
proper) of this Province in general ; the same to be con
tinued and conducted under such regulations and restric
tions as shall be consistent with the Continental Associa
tion, and which, on our parts, we engage with all possible
care to keep inviolate.

Our being a Parish of a non-associated Province, can-

MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS. 61

not, we presume, prevent our joining the other Provinces,
as the restriction mentioned in the fourteenth clause of
the General Association, must, as we apprehend, be con
sidered as a general rule only, and respects this Province,
considered in a mixed or promiscuous sense; but, as we
of this Parish are a body detached from the rest, by our
Resolutions and Associations,* and sufficiently distinct
by local situation, large enough for particular notice, and
have been treated as such by a particular Address from
the late Continental Congress; adjoining a sea-port, and
in that respect capable of conforming to the General As
sociation, (if connected with you,) with the same fidelity
as a distant Parish of your own Province, therefore we
must be considered as comprehended within the spirit and
equitable meaning of the Continental Association; and
we are assured you will not condemn the innocent with
the guilty, especially when a clue separation is made be
tween them. \Ye now wait your answer, and shall be
glad of your advice.

Signed by order of the Committee,

LYMAN HALL, Chairman.
Midway, February 9, 1775.

To the Committee of Correspondence in Charlestown,
South Carolina.

(Reply of the Committee of Correspondence in Char
lestown, S. C, to the Committee from St. John's Parish.)

February 24, 1775.

A Letter and sundry other Papers, from the Parish
of St. John's, in Georgia, (as above) was read, and ma-

*The number that subscribed the said Association amount to one hundred
and seventy-five substantial inhabitants.

62 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

turely considered. But the Committee being determined,
in all cases, to adhere literally, as far as possible, to every
Article of the Continental Association, could do no more
in the present, than enter into the following Resolution,
viz :

RESOLVED, That the Chairman be desired to write a
proper Letter to the Committee of the Parish of St. John,
in Georgia, assuring them of the high sense we have of
their arduous struggles in favour of the common cause
of America, and that we sincerely lament their present
unhappy situation ; but that, as the said Parish, being a
part of the Colony of Georgia, in our opinion, falls under
the fourteenth Article of the General Association, so we
apprehend that it is not in our power to give them the
relief they desire : and we can only recommend that they
will persevere in their laudable exertions, and lay a state
of their case before the ensuing Continental Congress,
making no doubt that it will by them be properly con
sidered.

ORDERED, That the Secretary do furnish the Deputies
from St. John's with copies of all the Proceedings of this
Committee, relative to the Colony of Georgia.

Dr. Hall and his followers in St. John having failed to
get their parish into the confederation either through the
Georgia Provincial Congress or through the General
Committee at Charleston, acting on the suggestion of
the South Carolina Committee, convened a parish "con
gress," or mass meeting, and having already adopted the
articles of confederation, elected Dr. Hall as the represen
tative of the parish of St. John in the Continental Con
gress, whither he repaired and was admitted to a seat
with power to debate, but not to vote, on questions on
which the vote was taken by states or provinces. "When
Georgia finally adopted the articles of confederation and

MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS. 63

elected delegates to the Continental Congress, Dr. Hall
was elected as one of her delegates and voted for and
signed the Declaration of Independence.

Messrs. Jones, Bulloch and Houstoun, elected to repre
sent Georgia in the Continental Congress by a Provincial
Congress in which less than half of the parishes were
represented, did not go to Philadelphia, but instead sent
the following letter to the President of the Continental

o

Congress : —

SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, April, 6, 17/5.

SIR : The unworthy part which the Province of Geor
gia has acted in the great and general contest, leaves
room to expect little less than the censure, or even indig
nation, of every virtuous man in America. Although,
on the one hand, we feel the justice of such a consequence
with respect to the Province in general, yet, on the other,
we claim an exemption from it in favour of some individ
uals, who wished a better conduct. Permit us, therefore,
in behalf of ourselves and many others, our fellow-citi
zens, warmly attached to the cause, to lay before the re
spectable body over which you preside a few facts, which,
we trust, will not only acquit us of supineness, but also
render our conduct to be approved by all candid and dis
passionate men.

At the time the late Congress did this Province the
honour to transmit to it an extract from their proceed
ings, enclosed in a friendly letter from the Honourable
Mr Middleton, the sense and disposition of the people in
general seemed to fluctuate between liberty and conven
ience. In order to bring on a determination respecting
the measures recommended, a few well-affected persons
in Savannah, by public advertisement in the Gazette, re
quested a meeting1 of all the parishes and districts, by

64 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

delegates or representatives, in Provincial Congress. On
the day appointed for this meeting, with concern they
found that only five out of twelve parishes to which they
had particularly wrote, had nominated and sent down
delegates; and even some of these five had laid their
representatives under injunctions as to the form of an
association. Under these circumstances, those who met
saw themselves a good deal embarrassed. However, one
expedient seemed still to present itself. The House of
Assembly was then sitting, and it was hoped there would
be no doubt of a majority in favour of American free
dom. The plan, therefore, was to go through with what
business they could in Provincial Congess, and then, with
a short address, present the same to the House of Assem
bly, who, it was hoped, would by votes in a few minutes,
and before prerogative should interfere, make it the act
of the whole Province. Accordingly, the Congress framed
and agreed to such an association, and did such other
business as appeared practicable with the people, and had
the whole just ready to be presented, when the Governor,
either treacherously informed, or shrewdly suspecting the
step, put an end to the session. What then could
the Congress do? On the one hand, truth forbid
them to call .their proceedings the voice of the Province,
there being but five out of twelve parishes concerned ;
and, on the other, they wanted strength sufficient to en
force them, on the principles of necessity, to which all
ought for a time to submit. Thev found the inhabitants
of Savannah not likely soon to give matters a favour
able turn. The importers were mostly against any in
terruption, and the consumers very much divided. There
were some of the latter virtuously for the measures;
others strenuously against them; but more who called
themselves neutrals than either. Thus situated, there ap
peared nothing before us but the alternative of either im
mediately commencing a civil war among ourselves, or

MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS. 65

else of patiently waiting for the measures to be recom
mended by the General Congress.

Among a powerful people, provided with men, money,
and conveniences, and by whose conduct others were to
be regulated, the former would certainly be the resolu
tion that would suggest itself to every man removed from
the condition of a coward ; but in a small community
like that of Savannah, (whose members are mostly in
their first advance toward wealth and independence, des
titute of even the necessaries of life within themselves,
and from whose junction of silence so little would be
added or lost to the general cause,) the latter presented
itself as the most eligible plan, and was adopted by the
people. Party disputes and animosities have occasionally
prevailed, and show that the spirit of freedom is not ex
tinguished, but only restrained for a time, till an oppor
tunity shall offer for calling it forth.

The Congress convened at Savannah did us the honour
of choosing us delegates to meet your respectable body
at Philadelphia, on the tenth of next month. We were
sensible of the honour and weight of the appointment,
and would gladly have rendered our country any services
our poor abilities would have admitted of; but alas ! with
what face could we have appeared for a Province whose
inhabitants had refused to sacrifice the most trifling ad
vantages to the public cause, and in whose behalf we
did not think we could safely pledge ourselves for the exe
cution of any one measure whatsoever ?

We do not mean to insinuate that those who appointed
us would prove apostates or desert their opinions ; but
that the tide of opposition was great ; that all the strength
and virtue of these our friends might be sufficient for the
purpose. We very early saw the difficulties that would

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here occur, and therefore repeatedly and constantly re
quested the people to proceed to the choice of other dele
gates in our stead ; but this they refused to do. We beg.
sir, you will view our reasons for not attending in a lib
eral point of light. Be pleased to make the most favour
able representation of them, to the Honourable the Mem
bers of the Congress. We believe we may take upon our
selves to say, notwithstanding all that has passed, there
are still men in Georgia who, when an occasion shall re
quire, \vill be ready to evince a steady, religious and manly
attachment to the liberties of America. For the consola
tion of these, they find themselves in the neighborhood of
a Province whose virtue and magnanimity must inJ will
do lasting honour to the cause, and in whose fa'e they
seem disposed freely to involve their own.

We have the honour to be. sir, your most obedient, and
very humble servants,

NOBLE WIMBERLY JONES,
ARCHIBALD BULLOCH,
JOHN HOUSTOUN.

To the President of the Continental
Congress.

In the meantime the fires of liberty were burning-
brighter and brighter throughout Geogia, and the spirit
of resistance to tyranny grew stronger and stronger.
There was a great scarcity of powder in the northern
provinces, where active hostilities had already begun.
Governor Wright had a magazine in Savannah in which
was stored a considerable quantity of ammunition. On
the eleventh of May, under cover of darkness, Dr. Noble
Wymberly Jones, Joseph Habersham, John Milledge, Ed
ward Telfair, Joseph Clay and William Gibbons, with a
few others who accompanied them, broke into the maga-

MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS. 07

xine and carried away the powder, sending a part of it
to South Carolina and concealing the remainder in their
cellars till it might he needed in defense of their homes.

In response to a call published in the Gazette and signed
by Noble Wymberly Jones, John Houstoun, Archibald
Bulloch and George Walton, a large number of inhabi
tants of Savannah and the surrounding country met at the
Liberty-Pole in Savannah on the twenty-second of June,
1775, to elect a Council of Safety to take charge of and
direct the affairs of the friends of freedom.

Of this body William Ewen was elected President and
the other members were, William Le Conte, Joseph Clay,
Basil Cowper, Samuel Elbert, William Young, Elisha
Butler, Edward Telfair, John Glen, George Houstoun,
George Walton, Joseph Habersham, Francis H. Harris,
John Smith and John Morel.

The Council of Safety was instructed to keep up a
correspondence with the local councils in the several prov
inces, with the Councils of Safety in the other parishes,
and with the Continental Congress at Philadelphia. We
here insert a fragmentary and imperfect journal (all
now in existence) of the Council of Safety.

68 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

(Reprint from II' kite's Historical Collections and Collec
tions of the Georgia Historical Society.)

PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

GEORGIA COUNCIL OF SAFETY.

At a meeting of the Council of Safety, 3d November,
I775-

Present :

William Ewen, President. Samuel Elbert.

John Smith. Edward Telfair.

Joseph Clay. Geo. Walton.

George Houstoun.* Wm. Le Conte.

The President laid before the Board a letter from the
Honorable Archibald Bulloch, John Houstoun and John
Joachim Zubly,* three Continental Delegates at Philadel
phia, containing the resolution of the Continental Con
gress relative to the two cargoes of goods arrived in this
Province after the 6th day of July and before the 6th day
of August last.

RESOLVED, That the said resolution and letter be re
ferred to the consideration of the General Committee.

The President reported that he had paid to Philip Box
and Wm. Gibbons, Esqrs., the Provincial Treasurers, the
sum of eight hundred and four pounds ten shillings Stg.,
as per copies of their receipts annexed.

*Afterwards joined the Royalists.

JOURNAL OF COUNCIL OF SAFETY 69

SAVANNAH, igth Sept, 1775.

Rec'd of Win. Ewen, Esqr., President of the Council
of Safety, five hundred and fifty-five shilling bills, being
one hundred and thirty-seven pounds ios., which we
promise to be accountable for when thereunto required.

PHIUP Box
550.53. £137 ios. WM. GIBBONS.

At a meeting of the Council of Safety on Monday,
December nth, 1775.

Present :

George Walton. Saml. Elbert.

Edwd. Telfair. John Smith.

Stephen Drayton. Wm. Ewen.

Francis Henry Harris. John Martin.

Oliver Bowen. Ambrose Wright.

The Council proceeded to the election of a President
by ballot, when George Walton, Esqr., was found to be
duly elected and took his seat accordingly.

Mr. Edward Langworthy being proposed as Secretary,
was unanimously elected and was also elected as Secreta
ry to the General Committee.

RESOLVED, That Edwd. Langworthy be allowed ....
pounds per annum for the above service.

Congress resolved that the Council of Safety

for the payment of the Secretary to pay

the doorkeeper and messenger during the sitting

70 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

of Congress in this Board, in consideration

the Secretary, do resolve paid to him for sum of

ttn pounds be paid the messenger and the sum of eight
pounds the doorkeeper for their attendance on the late
Congress

ORDERED, that the President do write letters to the sev
eral persons elected to sit at this Board, who have not
taken their seats, requiring that they do forthwith give
their attendance.

ORDERED, that a committee be appointed to draw up
rules and regulations for the direction of this Board, and
that Air. Drayton, Francis Henry Harris and \Ym. Ewen
be that committee.

RESOLVED, That the General Committee be requested
to meet to-morrpw morning at ten o'clock to proceed to
the election of fit persons to supply the vacancies at this
Board.

Air. Clay attended and declined taking his seat at this
Board.

Air. Drayton from the committee appointed to dra\v
up rules, £c... for this Board

RESOLVED, That the Council

Alonday on ten o'clock in

Room.

2d. That every member .

hour of adjournment

an

3d. That when the President takes the chair, each
member shall take their seats under a fine of two shillings
and six pence.

71

4th. No member shall speak on a subject, but by ad
dressing himself to the President, uncovered and stand
ing; that only one member shall be allowed to speak at
a time ; that when two shall arise, the determination, who
shall proceed, shall lye with the President.

5th. No member, without leave first obtained, shall
attempt to speak in the same debate above twice.

6th. That the President shall have power (notwith
standing the first resolve) to call the Council of Safety
as often as the emergency of affairs may require, and that
if the member, upon such extraordinary notice given for
their attendance, shall neglect to attend, they shall be
fined the sum of twenty shillings, without a reasonable
excuse.

7th. That no member shall be absent from the Coun
cil more than a week without first obtaining leave so to

RESOLVED, That the foregoing be the standing Rules
v'f this Board.

In consequence of sundry applications, the President
delivered commissions to the following gentlemen. Viz. :

Thomas Dowd, Third Lieutenant, dated— —December.

James Galache, Second Lieutenant, dated I2th De
cember.

Andrew Maybank, Captain, dated I2th December.

James Cochrane, First Lieutenant, dated I2th Decem
ber.

Moses May, Second Lieutenant, dated I2th December.

72 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

Joseph Woodruff e, Captain, dated I2th December.
John Morrison, First Lieutenant, I3th December.
Jacob Blunt, Second Lieutenant, I3th December.
Hezekiah Wade, Captain, dated — —December.
Jeremiah Beale, First Lieutenant, dated December.

Zephaniah Beale, Second Lieutenant, dated De-

t. ember.

George Philips, Third Lieutenant, dated December.

William Bugg, Senior Second Lieutenant, dated -
December.

Joshua Smith, Third Lieutenant, dated December.

John Dooly, Captain, dated December.

Thomas Dody, First Lieutenant, dated— —December.

MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL OF SAFETY.

George Walton. Jonathan Bryan.

William E\ven. William Gibbons.

Stephen Drayton John Martin.

Noble Wm. Jones. Oliver Bowen.

Basil Cowper.* Ambrose Wright.

Edwd. Telfair. Samuel Elbert.

John Bohun Girardeau. Joseph Habersham.

John Smith. Francis Henry Harris.

*Afterwards joined the Royalists.

JOURNAL OF COUNCIL OF SAFETY. 73

At a meeting of the Council of Safety, on Thursday
morning-, December I4th, 1/75.

Present :

George Walton. William E\ven.

Saml. Elbert. Oliver Bowen.

Stephen Drayton. Ambrose Wright.

Francis H. Harris. Edwd. Telfair.

RESOLVED, That the Messenger do summons the
Memljers of the General Committee to meet to-morrow
at three o'clock in the afternoon on special Business.

At a special meeting of the Council of Safety on Sa*:-
urday. December i6th, 1775.

Present :

George Walton. William Gibbons.

Stephen Drayton. -John Martin.

Edwd. Telfair. Ambrose Wright.

Oliver Bowen. Saml. Elbert.

William Ewen. Francis Henry Harris.

A petition was laid before the Council of Safety, in
behalf of Capt. John Conyers and the Company he com
manded; setting forth, that he, with twenty-five Men.
had marched to Augusta and there joined Capt. Elbert,
that the petitioner with his men were at considerable ex
pense and trouble; and therefore expected not only to
be paid per diem, but also to be reimbursed such necessary
expenses, &c.

74 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

RESOLVED, That the said John Conyers and his men
be paid at the rate of 4 shillings per diem, and likewise
the expenses of the expedition.

The president presented an account of Ann Johnston
for horse hire on the expedition to Augusta; ordered
that the said Ann Johnston be paid forty shillings for the
same.

Dr. Jones, attending the Council of Safety, took his
seat according to his election.

The chairman of the General Committee informed the
Board that the General Committee had met on yesterday,
and in pursuance of a resolution of Congress, and agree
able to the request from this Board, had proceeded and
elected Basil Cowper,* John Bohun Girardeau and Wil
liam Gibbons, Esqrs., as members to sit in the Council of
Safety in the room of William LeConte, William Young,"
and Joseph Clay, who declined taking their seats.

William Gibbons, Esq., attending the Council of Safe
ty, and being informed of his election as a member of
this Board, by the General Committee, took his seat ac
cordingly. Basil Cowper, Esq.,* likewise attended and
took his seat.

WHEREAS, It has been impracticable to get the pro
ceedings of the late Congress published, agreeable to their
directions, and as the said Congress is to expire on the
last day of this Instant, and members to form a new
Congress, to be chosen immediately thereafter, it is nec
essary that a few extracts from the said proceedings
should be published, before the pamphlet can be printed,
which will contain the most material part thereof.

* Afterwards joined the RoyaliiU.

JOURNAL OF COUNCIL OF SAFETY. 76

IN CONGRESS, December 8th, 1775.

RESOLVED, That this Congress do expire on the last
day of the present month of December, and that the in
habitants of the several districts and parishes within this
province, do proceed to the election of other delegates,
to form and sit in a new Congress, between the first and
twelfth days of January next ; and that the persons to
to be elected do meet and form a Provincial Congress at
Savannah, or elsewhere, on the first day of June next, or
sooner if the Honorable the Council of Safety shall think
it expedient to summon them.

WHEREAS, Some difficulties may arise in electing the
several members, in the several parishes and districts, who
are to compose the next Provincial Congress, for the pre
vention thereof, it is

RESOLVED, That the chairman of the several paro
chial and district committees do give public notice thereof
for at least ten days before such election, and that all
persons paying towards the general tax shall have power
to vote, and that the delegates shall be freeholders in
this province, and shall be chosen by ballot.

RESOLVED, Also, that the mode of delegation recom
mended by the late Congress be adopted and signed by
the electors of members to form and sit in the next Con
gress ; and also that all polls of election shall be open at
ten o'clock in the morning and continue so till five in the
afternoon, at which time, and not before, it shall be closed,
or adjourned till next day ; and that no poll shall be con
tinued open longer than two. days.

Extracts from the minutes.

ED. LANG WORTHY.

76 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

It is therefore strongly recommended to the inhabi
tants of the several districts and parishes within this
Province to proceed to the election of members to form
and sit in the next Congress, at the time and in the man
ner as are recommended by the last; and, in order that
there may be no inadequate or clashing powers delegated
to be elected : It is ordered that the Secretary do procure
a sufficient number of the said forms of delegation to be
printed and forthwith transmit them to the parochial and
district committees.

At a meeting of the Council of Safety, on Monday,
December i8th, 1775.

Present :

George Walton. William Ewen.

Stephen Drayton. Oliver Bowen.

Basil Cowper.* William Gibbons.

John Martin. Edward Telfair.

Noble Wimb. Jones. Ambrose Wright.

Jonathan Bryan. Samuel Elbert.

The President presented to the Board a letter from th'3
Council of Safety at Charlestown, which being read, it
was agreed to answer it by a deputation. Ordered that
Mr. Cooper and Mr. Drayton be that deputation.

RESOLVED, That Mr. Jones, Capt. Elbert and Captain
Martin be a committee to draw up instructions for the
deputies.

The President presented an account of Cuthbert £
Platt for the supply of the Indians, £6 35. Qd. Ordered
that the said Cuthbert and Platt be paid accordingly.

*Royalist.

JOURNAL OF COUNCIL OF SAFETY. 77

At a special meeting of the Council of Safety on Tues
day Deer. 1 9th, 1775.

George Walton. Samuel Elbert.

William Ewen. William Gibbons.

Stephen Drayton. Oliver Bowen.

Basil Cowper.* Edwd. Telfair.

John Martin. Ambrose Wright.

Noble W. Jones. Jonathan Bryan.

Francis H. Harris. John Joachim Zubly.*
Archibald Bulloch.

RESOLVED, That the General Committee be requested
and directed to emit and lodge in the Treasury the sum
of twenty-five hundred pounds for the necessary service
and defence of this Province; and that the Chairman of
the said committee do produce to this Board the Treas
urer's receipts for the same as soon as possible.

A motion was made and seconded to reconsider the
letter received from the Council of Safety at Charlestown,
whether it shall be answered by a letter or deputation.

Mr. Cooper declined going to Charlestown as a deputy;
Mr. Ewen was appointed in his room.

Archibald Bulloch, Esqr., laid before the Board the
following resolution of the Continental Congress.

IN CONGRESS, >Novb. 4th, 1775.

RESOLVED, That for the defence of the Colony of
Georgia there be one battalion kept up there at the Con
tinental expence, to be composed as the battalion for the

*RoyaHst.

78 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

defence of Carolina, viz. : To consist of 728 men, officers
included. This to be divided into 8 companies, each
company to consist of one Captain, two Lieutenants, one
Ensign, 4 Sergeants, 4 corporals, two drums or fifes and
seventy-six privates.

The pay of Colonel, 50 dollars p. calendar month.

Lieutenant Col., 40 ditto p. do.

Major, 33 y3 ditto p. do.

Captain. 26^/3

Lieutenant, 18

Ensign, iT>y3

Sergeant, 8

Corporal, 7^/3

Fife and Drum.

Private,

Adjutant,

Quarter Master,

Chaplain, 20

RESOLVED, That the above resolution be taken under
consideration on Tuesday, the 2cl January, 1776.

The Council adjourned to to-morrow mornino- o
o clock.

JOURNAL OF COUNCIL OF SAFETY. 79

Wednesday, Decemr. 2Oth, 1775.
The Council of Safety met according to adjournment.

Present :

Geo. Walton, President. Archibald Bulloch.

Samuel Elbert. Oliver Bowen.

Stephen Drayton. Edwd. Tel fair.

Ambrose Wright. Noble Wimb. Jones.
John Martin.

Mr. Girardeau attended the Council, took his seat.

The Board being informed that the Chief Justice had
made a rule of Court, whereby every Attorney who shall
pay obedience to the regulations of the late Congress, in
respect to law proceedings, should be struck off the
roll.

The Board deeming such proceeding by the Chief Jus
tice, not only highly derogatory to the authority of Con
gress, but arbitrary and illegal in respect to the attorneys

ORDERED, That Mr. Bowen and Mr. Girardeau be a
committee to search the Prothonotary's office if any such
rule is filed therein.

Mr. Brown and Mr Girardeau having searched th^
Prothonotary's office, reported that no such rule is filed
therein.

RESOLVED, That the chairman of the General Com
mittee be requested to call a meeting of the same, this
afternoon at four o'clock, the Board having particular
business to lay before them.

RESOLVED, That the members to be elected to form

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and sit in the next Congress be summoned to meet in
Savannah on the 2Oth of January next, to form the same,
in order that the proceedings of the Continental Congress
may be laid before them.

ORDERED,, That the President do write to the commit
tees for the several districts and parishes within the Prov
ince, acquainting them therewith.

RESOLVED, That the President be empowered to hire
expresses to communicate the same.

Adjourned to to-morrow nine o'clock.

Thursday, December 2ist, 1775
The Council met according to adjournment.
Present :

George Walton, President. Oliver Bowen.

Basil Cowper.* John Martin.

Noble Wimb. Jones. Samuel Elbert.

Edward Telfair. Wm. Gibbons.
Ambrose Wright.

RESOLVED, That all military officers of the first Regi
ment, acting under authority of Congress, be required to
do patrol duty during the Christmas holidays, agreeable
to the directions of the Acts of Assembly.

ORDERED, that the President do forthwith write to the
Captains of the First Regiment, acquainting them with
the foregoing resolution.

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At a special meeting of the Council of Safety on Sun
day, Dec. 24th, 1775.

Present :

George Walton. Francis Henry Harris.

Echvd. Telfair. Oliver Bowen.

Saml. Elbert. Basil Cowper.*

John Smith. John Martin.
Win. Gibbons.

The President laid before the Board a letter from
John \Vereat, Esq., informing that several vessels load
ing with lumber up Sapelo and other rivers at the south
ward, with palpable intention of supplying the West India
markets, contrary to the restraints of Congress. The
Board taking the said letter into consideration, resolved
that the committees from the southern parishes be re
quired to take effectual measures to prevent such wicked
and daring attempts. Ordered, that the men employed
and the necessary charges and expenses attending the
same be paid by the public. Ordered, that the President
do write to the southern parishes, acquainting them
therewith.

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At a special meeting of the Council of Safety on
Wednesday, December 27th, 17/5.

Present :

George Walton. Basil Cowper.*

Kchv. Tel fair. John Smith.

Francis Henry Harris. William Gibbons.

Oliver Bowen. Archibald Bulloch.
Samuel Elbert.

Joseph Habersham, Esq., attended this Board and took
his seat. A motion was made and seconded that a com
mittee be appointed to propose some expedients for supply
ing the Province with arms and ammunition, and that
they make their report on Friday next, which being
agreed to, it was ordered that Capt. Elbert, Mr. Oliver
Bowen, Mr. Edward Telfair, Mr Joseph Habersham and
Mr. Basil Cowper be a committee for that purpose.

Adjourned to Friday morning 10 o'clocK.

At a meeting of the Council of Safety on Tuesday. Jan.

2, 1776.

Present :

George Walton. Basil Cowper.*

Archibald Bulloch. Joseph Habersham.

John Martin. Francis Henry Harris.

William Gibbons. Ambrose Wright.

Samuel Elbert. John Bohun Girardeau.

Captain William Manson* presented to this Board a
petition setting forth that since his arrival from Great

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Britain several of his indented servants had been enticed
from him and enlisted into the provincial service of South
Carolina, to his great loss and damage.

That a number of armed men, among whom were
.some of the recruits belonging to Captain Spencer, and
four of his indented servants, violently attacked his house,
pulled down his fence, and would have proceeded to
further violence if not prevented by people in the house;
that he was necessitated to take two of the above men
tioned servants into Custody; that conceiving his person
and property to be in imminent danger, puts himself
under the protection of this Board. &c.

The Board having taken the premises into considera
tion, issued the following order.

GEORGIA.

IN THE COUNCIL of SAFETY,
Savannah, 2d January, 1776.

T.> Mr. John Spencer, a. recruiting officer, acting under
the authorit\ of the Council of Safety of the Province
of South Carolina, and under the protection of this
Board:

It appears to this Board that you have enlisted four
indented servants of Capt. Wm. Manson, who has lately
brought over from England a number of tradesmen and
others to settle in the frontier parts of this Province, a:
a very considerable expense; and. as we deem the enlist
ing of men in that situation not warranted by the regula
tions of the honorable Continental Congress, we require
that you forthwith either surrender the men so enlisted,
receiving back their enlisting money, or pay the expenses
of indenting and bringing them to America.

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The Board further injoins, that Mr. Spencer will use
his utmost endeavors to prevent any outrage to Capt.
Manson, his people, or property, or any other person in
this Province, by any of his men.

Mr. Spencer declaring that he could not surrender up
Capt. Manson's Servants, the following order was imme
diately issued.

To Lieutenants Scth John Cnthbcrt and William Moore:

You are hereby ordered and required forthwith to ar.M
and array a sufficient number of men belonging to the
companies to which you respectively belong, and to rescue
from Mr. John Spencer the following persons, viz. :

William Budge, Francis "Wallace, Thomas Purely and
John Douglass, being indented servants to Captain Wil
liam Manson, and by him enlisted contrary to the regula
tions of the Continental Congress ; which men you are
to deliver to Capt. Manson.

By order of the Council of Safety.

GEO. WAI/TON, President.
2d January, 1776.

The Committee appointed to propose expedients for
supplying the Province with arms and ammunition
brought in their report, which the Board proceeded to
consider and came to the following resolutions.

WHEREAS, It has been resolved by the Continental
Congress, that for the better furnishing these Colonies
with the necessary means of defending their rights, every
vessel importing gunpowder, saltpetre, sulphur, provided
they bring with the sulphur four times as much saltpetre,

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brass field pieces of good muskets fitted with bayonets,
within nine months from the date of this resolution, shall
be permitted to load and export the produce of these Col
onies, to the value of such powder and stores aforesaid,
the non-exportation agreement notwithstanding.

RESOLVED, Therefore, that a sum of money be pro
vided for the purpose of obtaining arms and ammunition
for this Province.

RESOLVED, That Saml. Elbert, Ewd. Telfair and Jo
seph Habersham be a committee to agree with a proper
person to undertake to supply this Province with arms
and ammunition.

RESOLVED, That such person shall have power to draw
on the said committee for the sum necessary to be paid
for such arms and ammunition, who are empowered and
required to accept the same upon the faith of the public
of this Province.

RESOLVED, That the holder of any such bills may
send any vessel or vessels to any port of this Province,
which shall be permitted to load and carry off any pro
duce of this Province to the amount thereof.

RESOLVED, That it be recommended to the committee
to contract for the supply of 400 stand of arms with
bayonets, as nearly to the size recommended by the Con
tinental Congress as possible, 20,000 Ibs. of gunpowder,
60,000 Ibs. of ball, bullets, bar lead, grape, swan and
goose shot, properly proportioned.

RESOLVED, That all the military stores at the Fort of
Frederica be immediately secured and lodged in some
place of security.

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RESOLVED, That the President be empowered to issue
orders by authority of the Board to some person willing
to undertake the same,

RESOLVED, That the expense attending the taking and
securing such stores be paid by the public of this province.

Adjourned to five o'clock p. m.

At a Special Meeting of the Council of Safety, Sunday,
January 7th, 1/76.

Present :

George Walton. Jonathan Bryan.

Stephen Drayton. Joseph Habersham.

Archibald Bulloch. William Gibbons.

Edward Telfair. Button Gwinnett.

Samuel Elbert. Francis Henry Harris.

Ambrose Wright. John Martin.

The President informed the Board, that in consequence
of information received from the secret committee, in
forming that two ships of war and one transport had
sailed from Rebellion Road, which, there was good reason
to believe, was destined to this Province, in order perhaps
to plunder it of live stock, &c., or to support the merchants
in the exportation of produce contrary to the Continental
restraints. That in consequence of this information, he
looked over the list of names of members of the Council
of Safety and found there would be difficulty in getting a
Board, and fearing the public safety would be endangered
by a delay, and therefore issued the following orders.

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Orders to David Zubly* John Stirk, &c., &c.

It is deemed necessary for the public safety, that a part
of the militia should be draughted to do duty at and about
the Town of Savannah. You are therefore ordered and
required immediately to draught one third of the men in
your company and to march them to Savannah by 12
o'clock to-morrow, with their arms and accoutrements
and lodging apparel ; for which the officers and men will
be paid agreeable to a resolve of Congress.

GEO. WALTON,
President of the Council of Safety.

The Board, highly approving of the conduct of the
President, do resolve that the foregoing orders be valid,
as if particularly directed by the Board.

Mr. Dray ton represented that he was ready to make
the report of his deputation to Charlestown, when the
Board thought it proper to defer it till to-morrow morn
ing.

A motion was made and seconded that officers be ap
pointed to command the militia ordered upon duty by the
President.

RESOLVED, That Samuel Elbert, Esquire, be Colonel
and Chief in Command, Stephen Drayton, Esquire, Lien-
tenant Colonel and Second in Command, and Joseph
Habersham, Esquire, Major and Third in Command, and
that the President by empowered to issue and sign com
missions for them.

RESOLVED, That sufficient number of small craft be
forthwith sent down to Cockspur to lighten the Ship In-

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veriiy, McKenzie, Master, now riding in the road there,
in order that the ship may be brought up to Savannah.

RESOLVED, That it be given in charge to the command
ing officer at Cockspur, to use his utmost endeavours to
effect this purpose, and in case he shall find it impracti
cable and that the vessel and cargo must otherwise fall
into the hands of our enemies, that then and not till then,
in order to prevent the same, he shall have power to scut
tle her.

RESOLVED, ALSO, That it be further given in charge
to the said officer to put the ship as soon under way as
possible, and that he uses the utmost dispatch in bring
ing her and her cargo up to Savannah.

RESOLVED, That the President do commissionate Peter
Bard and William O'Bryan, Gentlemen, for this pur
pose.

I •>

RESOLVED, That the commanding officer at Savannah,
for the time being, have power to restrain any Crown
officer from going without the limits of Savannah, if he
should deem it expedient.

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At a meeting of the Council of Safety, Monday, Jan.
8th, 1776.

Present :

George Walton. . Francis Henry Harris.

William Ewen. Button Gwinnett.

Echvd. Telfair. Stephen Drayton.

Noble Wmb. Jones. Ambrose Wright.

Samuel Elbert. Archibald Bulloch.

William Gibbons. Jonathan Bryan.
John Bohun Girardeau.

A letter was presented to the Board respecting some
disturbances that have lately happened between an In
dian and some white people.

RESOLVED, THEREFORE, That the President do write
to the several committees bordering upon the Indian
countries and direct them to apprehend any white person
who shall molest or disturb any Indian amity with this
Province.

Stephen Drayton and William Ewen, Esquires, depu
ties appointed by this Board to make a representation of
the state of this Province to the Council of Safety in
South Carolina, and to confer with them on the subject
of exportation, having returned, attended and made their
report.

RESOLVED, that no rice shall be exported from this
Province after this day, until the first day of March next,
except such as was shipped previous to the arrival of the
prohibition by the Continental Congress, and not then,
without permission by this Board.

RESOLVED, That the General Committee be required

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to issue and .lodge in the Treasury one thousand pounds
over and above the last requisition ; and that it be recom
mended to the chairman to use his utmost endeavour to
expedite the same.

RESOLVED, That Levi Sheftal* be a commissary, as
appointed by the President, to provide necessaries for the
several companies of men that are ordered out upon duty
at and about Savannah.

A petition was presented to the Board by William Pan-
ton, setting forth that he had purchased goods, &c., be
longing to Kellsall & Co., together with the goods and
gunpowder intended for the Indian trade, and that he
desired to receive his proportion of the same ; that he
has a sloop now stopped by the Parochial Committee in
this harbour, on board of which he has shipped a small
quantity of rice, rum, salt, strands, &c., that he therefore
prays that this Board will order him his proportion of
the said gunpowder and permit his sloop immediately to
depart with the same together with the other articles.

The Board, taking the premises into consideration,
resolved that, consistent with the public safety, they could
not spare him any powder and that they could not permit
him to carry any produce to Florida.

ORDERED that the President do inform him of the
same.

RESOLVED, That the President do write to the Council
of Safety in Carolina and represent the particular circum
stances of the vessel and cargo lately taken and carried
to Beaufort by their order: and that he request that the
same may be returned to this Province; and that he
pledges the faith of the Province that she shall not sail
with her cargo contrary to the Laws of Congress.

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RESOLVED, That the President do issue his warrant to
the commanding officer at Cockspur, commanding him
to take the body of Captain William Colville and bring
him before this Board, or, in case of its recess, deliver
him to the commanding officer in Savannah.

RESOLVED, That the President do write to the com
mittee for the Parish of Saint John, requiring that they
use the utmost vigilance in watching the motions of the
pilots for the harbour of Sunbury : and that, in particu
lar, they send for Captain William Lyford, and question
him as to his piloting into any port in this Province any
ship or vessel of war of our enemies, and that they take
such steps with him, if he appears inimical to the com
mon interest, as will be a sufficient security against his
aiding; our enemies.

At a meeting of the Council of Safety, Jan. 8th,

1776. p. m.

Present :

George Walton. Francis Henry Harris.

Stephen Drayton. Samuel Elbert.

William Ewen. Archibald Bulloch.

Jonathan Bryan. John Bohun Girardeau.

John Martin. William Gibbons.

Edward Telfair. Ambrose Wright.

Air. Baker, from Saint John's Parish, presented to the
Board a return and election of officers to command a
company of riflemen, and recommended John Baker.
Esqr., as Captain, Mr. John Bacon, Senr., as First Lieu
tenant, Mr. William Baker, Senr., as Second Lieutenant
and Mr. Thomas Bacon as Third Lieutenant of same.

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ORDERED, that commissions be made out for the above
gentlemen accordingly.

RESOLVED, That houses of all overseers and negroes
throughout the Province, together with those on the
Plantations in South Carolina, bordering upon Savan
nah River, below Purisburgh. be forthwith searched, and
all guns and ammunition (except one gun and thirteen
cartridges for each overseer) which shall be found there
in, shall be taken and lodged in the hands of the com
mittee for the several Parishes and Districts.

ORDERED, That the commanding officer at Savannah
be directed to send a party of men to search the said
plantations in South Carolina, and to have the guns and
ammunition, which they shall find and take therein,
lodged in the public store in Savannah.

RESOLVED, That the President do write to the Council
of Safety in South Carolina, and represent the necessity
that obligated this Board to order their plantations to be
searched.

At a meeting of the Council of Safety, Jan. Qth, i/7«>.

Present :

George Walton. Archibald Bulloch.

William Gibbons. Jonathan Bryan.

Noble \Vimb. Jones. William Ewen.

Edwd. Telfair. Joseph Habersham.

John Martin. Ambrose Wright.
Stephen Drayton.

A motion was made and seconded that the letters from
the Continental Delegates be read, which was ordered
accordingly.

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Wm. Baker, one of the officers of Saint John's Rifle
Men, represented to the Board that many of the men
\vere in want of powder and therefore applied for same.
Ordered that 25 ib. wt. be delivered unto him.

The following- resolves of the Continental Congress
were received enclosed in the letters from our delegates.

IN CONGRESS, Octo. 6th, 1775.
On motion made :

RESOLVE:-, That it be recommended to the several
Provincial Assemblies or Conventions and Councils or
Committees of Safety, to arrest and secure every person
in their respective Colonies, whose going at large may in
their opinion endanger the safety of the Colony or the
liberties of America.

A true copy from the Minutes.

CHARLES THOMAS, Sec.

IN CONGRESS, Thursday, 26th, 1775.

RESOLVED, That it be recommended to the several
Provincial Assemblies, Conventions or Councils of Safety
of the United Colonies, to export to the foreign West
Indies, on account of risque of their respective Colonies,
as much provision or any other produce except horned
cattle, sheep, hogs and poultry, as they may deem: neces
sary for the importation of arms, ammunition, sulphur
and saltpetre.

ORDERED, That a copy of the above be transmitted by
the Delegates to their respective Assemblies, Conventions
or Committees of Safety.

A true copy.

CHARLES THOMPSON, Secy.

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The President having informed the Board that, from
the accounts received, informing- that ships of war were
destined to this coast, he had issued orders to remove
the cannon from the Island of Cockspur.

RESOLVED, That this Board do approve of the said
orders, and that the President do issue further orders
for collecting and cleaning the cannon in and about the
Town of Savannah, and that the commanding officer be
appointed to do the same.

Mr. John Elliott, from the Parish of Saint John, pre
sented to the Board a return of an election of officers for
a company of Rangers, and recommended James Scriven,
Esqr., as Captain, Air. Dan'l Roberts as First Lieutenant,
Mr. John Scriven as Second Lieutenant, and Mr. John
Elliott as Third Lieutenant. Ordered that commissions
be made out accordingly.

(Extract of a Letter from the Honorable Henry Lau-
rens, Esqr., President of the Council of Safety for South
Carolina, to Archibald Bulloch. Esqr., dated 2nd Jan
uary, 1776.)

But, Sir, my principal business at present, for other
wise I should not have troubled you before Mr. Dray-
ton's return, is to inform you that the Tamar, Cherokee,
Sandwich Packet and an Armed Schooner made sail this
morning in Rebellion Road and attempted to go over the
bar, but the wind failing they are all come to anchor
again. From undoubted intelligence we learn they arc
intended for your river in order to obtain provisions (of
bread particularly) which, since the practice of harbour
ing and protecting our negroes on board the Cherokee.
we have refused to supply them with. Perhaps, too.
there may be a concerted plan between the two Great Men
for covering the loading of all the ships, which now arc

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and which may come into your river, for overawing the
friends of liberty and for giving energy to the projects
of our enemies, in award for every mischievous and no
good purpose towards the former. These will receive the
warning, enquire what quantity of bread and flour, beef
and pork is in the Town and act a part, we hope, that will
do them honor.

I have the honor, &c..

HENRY LAURENS.

At a meeting of the Council of Safety, Friday, Jan
uary 1 2th, 1776.

Present :

George Walton. John Martin.

Samuel Elbert. Ambrose Wright.

Stephen Drayton. Archibald Bulloch.

Edward Telfair. William Ewen.

Joseph Habersham. William Gibbons.

The President laid before the Board a letter from Luke
Mann, Esquire, which, among other things, informed of
the election of officers for a company of men in the Upper
District of Saint Philip, and recommended Luke Mann
as Captain, Israel Bird, First Lieutenant, Frederic Rester,
Second Lieutenant, and Joshua Stafford, Third Lieuten
ant. Ordered that commissions be made out and sent to
them accordingly.

Capt. James Goldwire and Lieutenant Richard Scruggs
attended the Board and represented that they had re
ceived the orders of the President, commanding Capt.

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Gokhvire to make a draught of one third of the company
and to march them down to Savannah ; that in conse
quence of these orders, they draughted one third of the
company and assembled them and ordered them forth
with to march to Savannah, and that not only every man
draughted, but every man in the whole company, except
William King, absolutely refused obeying the said orders,
whereby they could not comply with them.

They also represented that they had often heard James
Pace, tavern keeper, and John Hall, planter, declare that
they were King's men, and that all the men in the Con
gress and Council of Safety were Rebels : and that they
would oppose all their measures and that they were wel
come to try it when they pleased. They further observed
that James Pace and John Hall excited the men of the
said company to disobedience by their means and pre
vented some of them from coming to town and that they
were of opinion that unless some immediate steps are
taken they will certainly do great harm to the public,
and they also considered themselves in personal danger
from the said James Pace and John Hall, if they were
suffered to go at large; therefore,

RESOLVED, That James Pace, of the Parish of Saint
Matthew, tavern keeper, and John Hall, of the same
place, are inimical to the liberties of America: and that
the public safety is endangered by their going at large.

RESOLVED, THEREFORE, That Colonel Drayton be ap
pointed to command the militia of the Parishes of Saint
Matthew, Saint George and Saint Paul ; and that as soon
as he can assemble a sufficient force, he shall arrest and
take the said James Pace and John Hall and bring them
to Savannah : and that he shall suppress and disperse by
force all and every person who shall appear in arms in
opposition to the measures of Congress, or who shall
declare against the liberties of America.

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RESOLVED, That Echv. Telfair, Esquire, be appointed
to go with and to aid and assist Colonel Dray ton in the
measures necessary to be pursued in order to the execu
tion of the foregoing resolutions.

RESOLVED, That all the officers and men in the Parishes
aforesaid are bound to pay obedience to the orders which
may be issued by Colonel Drayton, and that neglect or
disobedience shall be punished agreeable to the Regula
tions of Congress.

RESOLVED, That the militia shall be paid at the rates
that were allowed to the militia called out to suppress the
insurgents in South Carolina, and that they draw rations
in the same manner while employed in this service.

At a meeting of the Council of Safety, Jan. I3th, 1/76.

Present :

George Walton. Basil Cowper.*

Noble Wimb. Jones. William Ewen.

Archibald Bulloch. John Martin.

Samuel Elbert. William Gibbons.

Eclwd. Telfair. Stephen Drayton.

Ambrose Wright. John Smith.

A motion was made and seconded, that a committee
be appointed to wait on the Reverend Mr. Piercy, to re
quest him to preach a sermon on Monday the 22d instant,
at the opening of the Congress.

ORDERED, that Archibald Bulloch, Esqr., and Colonel
Elbert be a Committee for that purpose.

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Mr. Bulloch, applied to the Board in behalf of the in
habitants of the Sea Islands for leave to form a separate
and distinct company: Resolved, that they have leave
so to do.

ORDERED that they meet at Skidaway Landing on the
Island of Skidaway on Friday the igth of this instant
to elect officers to command the said company agreeable
to a Resolve of Congress.
t

The President sent a letter to the Council of Safety
for South Carolina, informing them of the arrival of
the Tamar off Tybee Light house and that the other
vessels were in the Offing, and had fired several guns,
but whether from the haziness of the weather, or their
being in distress, we could not be certain.

Adjourned till Monday morning

At a Council of Safety at Mrs. Tondee's, January i6th,
1776.

Present :

George Walton. Ambrose Wright.

Stephen Drayton. John Smith.

Samuel Elbert. Edward Telfair.

Archibald Bulloch. Basil Cowper.*

William Ewen. Joseph Habersham.

Francis Harris. William Gibbons.

WHEREAS, It appears to the Board, that the inhabi
tants of the Distict of Great Ogeeche, in the Parish of
Saint Matthew, were prevented from proceeding to the

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election of a Delegate to represent them in the next Con
gress by being obliged to obey the orders of this Board
in draughting a third of them to come to Savannah, the
Board, therefore, and in order that the said inhabitants
may be represented, do hereby require the said inhabi
tants to proceed to the election and delegation of a per
son to represent them in the next Congress, the twelfth
day of this instant being elapsed notwithstanding.

RESOLVED, That it shall be considered as an offense
in any person, who shall idly fire a gun in the Town or
Common of Savannah; and the commanding officer for
the day shall have power to take the arms of any such
person and detain them until he shall be assured that such
person will not repeat the like offense.

RESOLVED, That Col. Drayton recommend it to the
Committee for the Parish of St. Matthew to advertise a
meeting of the inhabitants resident near Tuckisaw-Kings,
being within the District of Capt. Goldwire's company
of Militia, and to require them to proceed to the election
and delegation of a fit person to represent them in the
next Congress.

ORDERED, that Capts. Howell and Chisolm do attend
Col. Drayton on the expedition to the Back County with
the detachments under their command.

John Houstoun, Esqr., attended on the Board, and
took his seat.

WHEREAS, The inhabitants of the Lower District in
the Parish of Saint Philip have not applied to this Board
for commissions for any officers to command them.
These are, therefore, to order and require the said in
habitants to proceed to the election of one Captain and
three Lieutenants for that purpose.

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A motion was made, seconded and agreed to, that a
committee be appointed to examine the printer's office,
to see whether there was not something to be published
this week, that might endanger the public safety.

ORDERED, that Major Habersham and Capt. Harris be
that committee.

Capt. Wells presented to the Board an account against
the public for moving a quantity of ammunition from
Savannah to Ebenezer, and for removing Capt. McKen-
zie's ship from the Road of Cockspur to Savannah, and
the expence attending the same amounting in the whole to
£16, i os, 9d, which passed and was ordered to be paid.

RESOLVED, That the Militia now upon duty be paid
the sum of one shilling and six pence p. diem to each
man.

At a special meeting of the Council of Safety Jan. i6th,
1776, p. m.

Present :

George Walton. Samuel Elbert.

Archibald Bulloch. William Ewen.

John Houstoun. Joseph Habersham.

Basil Cowper.* Francis Harris.
Ambrose Wrright.

RESOLVED, That the President issue orders to Joseph
Rice, that he immediately go down to Capt. Stirk, in the
schooner on Provincial service, now on her way to Sa
vannah, and that he take with him the Riflemen from

*Royalist.

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Saint John's, and that when on board they act in obedi
ence to the directions of Capt. Stirk.

ORDERED, that Col. Elbert be made acquainted with
the foregoing Resolution and that he be desired to send
an officer with a detachment of men to keep a lookout
at Causton's Bluff, and to give the earliest information
to this Board, of any boats which may be sent from
the men of war.

At a special meeting of the Council of Safety Jan. i8th,
1776, p. m.

Present :

George Walton. John Houstoun.

Joseph Habersham. Samuel Elbert.

John Martin. William Ewen.

Archibald Bulloch. Francis Harris.
Ambrose Wright.

RESOLVED, That the persons of his Excellency, Sir
James Wright, Baronet, and of John Mulryne, Josiah
Tattnall and Anthony Stokes, Esqrs., be forthwith ar
rested and secured and that all non-associates be forth
with disarmed, except those, who will give their parole,
assuring that they will not aid, assist or comfort any
of the persons on board his Majesty's ships of war, or
take up arms against America in the present unhappy
dispute.

RESOLVED, That the commanding officer do secure the
Governor and Council till further orders from this Board

102 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

ORDERS.
To Col. Drayton and Edwd. Telfair, Hsqrs.

You are hereby required forthwith to order a draught
of at least one-third of the Militia within the Parishes
over which we have delegated to you our power ; and to
have them immediately marched to Savannah, together
with every other person, who may choose to come down
as a volunteer and that you inform the persons so
draughted and voluntarily coming down, they shall be
paid the sum of one shilling and six pence to each for
every day, in which they shall be employed on this serv
ice. These orders are not directly to militate with your
expedition, but we particularly recommend it to you, to
finish the business of that as soon as possible.

By Order of the Council of Safety,

GEO. WALTON, President.

At a special meeting of the Council of Safety, Jan.
1 8th, at ii o'clock at night, i//6.

Present :

George Walton. Saml. Elbert.

Wm. Gibbons. Ambrose Wright.

Basil Cowper.* Archibald Bulloch.

Noble Wimb. Jones. John Houstoun.

Francis Henry Harris. Joseph Habersham.

RESOLVED, That the Members of his Majesty's Coun
cil be permitted to go to their respective homes upon their

"'Afterwards Royalist.

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parole assuring that they will attend his Excellency the
Governor's house, at nine o'clock to-morrow morning
and there consider themselves as in their present condi
tion, and upon his Excellency the Governor, giving as
surance to Major Habersham, that the peace of the town
shall not be disturbed by any persons from, the ships of
war.

ORDERED, that Mr. Cooper and Dr. Jones attend Major
Habersham to his Excellency the Governor, with the
foregoing resolution.

At a meeting of the Council of Safety, Jan. iQth, 17/6.

Present :

Geo. Walton. Wm. Gibbons.

Francis Harris. Sanrl Elbert.

Noble Wimbl. Jones. John Girardeau.

Basil Cowper.* William Ewen.

Joseph Habersham. John Houstoun,

Ambrose Wright. John Smith.
Archibald Bulloch.

RESOLVED, That his Excellency Sir James Wright,
Baronet, his Majesty's Council, and the Crown Officers
in general, be enjoined upon their parole of honor not to
go out of the Town, or hold any correspondence with any
of the officers or others on board the ships of war now at
Tybee, without permission of this Board, and that should
either or any of them refuse to give such parole, such
person or persons shall immediately be arrested and con
fined under guard.

^Afterwards Royalist.

104 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

RESOLVED, That John Mulryne and Josiah Tattnall,
Esquires, arrested by order of the Board, be also en
joined, upon their parole of honor, to the like effect.

RESOLVED, That in case any ships or boats of war
should appear, or land in or near the Town, before the
resolution of Congress in regard to the said ships of war
can be entered into, and published, that then the persons
aforesaid shall be immediately removed to and confined
in the country.

ORDERED, that Mr. Smith and Mr. Gibbons do wait
on them with a copy o>f the foregoing resolutions.

At a meeting of the Council of Safety, Jan. iQth, 1776,
p. m.

Present :

George Walton. John Houstoun.

Samuel Elbert. William Ewen.

Basil Cowper.* Francis Henry Harris.

Noble Wimb. Jones. William Gibbons.

John Smith. John Bohun Girardeau.

Mr. Smith and Mr. Gibbons reported that they had
served his Excellency the Governor and his Majesty's
Council with the Resolution entered into this mornine,

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and that they requested to furnish them with a copy there
of, which accordingly they did.

Capt. Harris informed the Board that in pursuance of
a Resolution of the same, he had arrested and had now

*Royalist.

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in custody the body of John Mulryne, Esqr., whereupon
Mr. Cowper and Mr. Girardeau were ordered to require
his parole of honor, which he pledged in the following
manner: That he will not aid, assist or comfort the
officers or others on board his Majesty's ships of war
now in this Province, by holding any intercourse or cor
respondence with them; that he will not supply them
with any provisions whatsoever, and that he will not take
up arms against America on the present unhappy contest
with the mother country.

ORDERED, that Capt. Harris serve Col. Mulryne with
a copy of the above; which he having clone the Colonel
assured him. on his honor, that he would strictly abide
by the same.

At a meeting of the Council of Safety, Feb. 2Oth, 1776.

Present :

Archibald Bulloch. William Ewen.

Ambrose Wright. Edward Telfair

Joseph Clay. George Walton.

William LeConte. John Girardeau.

William O'Brien. Benjamin Andrew.

The Council proceeded to the election of a President,
when Elisha Butler, Esqr., was found to be unani
mously elected. >

ORDERED, that the Secretary do immediately write to
him, to require his attendance accordingly.

Mr. William Ewen took the chair pro tempore in the
room of Elisha Butler, Esq.

106 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

Messrs. Joseph Clay and John Smith declined taking
their seats.

RESOLVED, That Mr. Archibald Bulloch, Mr. George
Walton and Mr. William LeConte be appointed a com
mittee to enquire into the cause of the discontent among
the Country Militia now in Town.

Mr. John Martin and Mr. John Stirk were elected
members of this Board, in the room of [Messrs. Clay and
Smith.

At a meeting of the Council of Safety, Feb. 2ist, 17/6.

Present :

Wm. Ewen, Prest. William O'Brien.

John Girardeau. John Stirk.

George Walton. Archibald Bulloch.

Ambrose Wright. Wm. LeConte.

John Martin. John Houstoun.
Benjamin Andrew.

The Hon. James Edward Powell, Esqr., attended on
this Board, and delivered two letters from Capt. Barclay
and Gov. Wright, which are as follows :

SCARBOROUGH AT COCKSPUR, Feb. iQth, 1776.

SIR : Yesterday I received yours enclosing a letter
from the Congress to the gentlemen of the Council in
answer to what I wrote them, and desired might be com
municated to the Congress and people in general. This
letter I cannot consider as an answer to mine, as they
have not taken any notice of the most serious part, with
respect to themselves and the Province; but if they will

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not be their own friends, the Province will blame them
and not me, who thro' friendship put it in their power
to be happy.

Inclosed you have a letter received from Capt Barclay
in consequence of one wrote him by direction of the Con
gress, the contents of which you will be pleased to acquaint
them with, and I am surprised they should suppose he
could or would accept the proposition. I am, with per
fect esteem, Sir,

Your very obedient servant,

(Signed) J. WRIGHT.
Hble. J. E. Powell, Esqr.

SCARBOROUGH, Feb. iQth, 1776.

SIR : Having represented to your Excellency upon my
arrival here, that I was very desirous of having a free
intercourse between his Majesty's ships under my com
mand and the Town of Savannah, and desiring at the
same time, I might be supplied with provisions and other
necessaries, by paying the market price for the same,
which I had great reason to expect in any part of his
Majesty's dominions.

I beg leave to acquaint your Excellency that I have
received a letter from Savannah signed by Archibald Bui-
loch, a copy of which I herewith enclose you, and the
manner of intercourse mentioned therein between the
Town and King's ships, I can by no means accept of.

I beg your Excellency will make the Town acquainted
therewith.

I have the honor to be your Excellency's most obedient
humble servant.

(Signed) AND. BARCLAY.
His Excellency Sir James Wright.

108 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

RESOLVED, That Captains Martin and Stirk be a com
mittee to examine the public accounts, and that they re
ceive no accounts otherwise than upon oath.

The Hon. Rawlins Lowndes, Col. Parsons and
Thomas Savage, Esqr.. from the Congress for South
Carolina, waited on this Board and laid before it the fol
lowing resolve, recommending a similar one to be adopted
by this Province :

SOUTH CAROLINA, in Congress, 14 Febry., I//6.

WHEREAS, The Continental Congress, on the ist day
of November last, prohibited exportation from the United
Colonies until the ist day of March next; and,

WHEREAS, By reason of the distance of several of
those Colonies from Philadelphia, the Resolution of the
said Congress, relative to exportation after that day, may
not be known for some time; and it may be injurious
to the common cause of America if exportation should be
permitted in any Colony, before such Resolution shall be
known there.

RESOLVED, That the said prohibition shall continue and
be of force in this Colony until the first day of May next,
unless an authentic account of the determination of the
Continental Congress relative to exportation after the
said ist day of March, shall be sooner received and pub
lished by the Council of Safety.

A true copy.

PETER TIMOTHY, Secretary.

ORDERED, that the consideration of extending the Reso-

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lution of the Continental Congress in such manner as

recommended be deferred till to-morrow morning.

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At a meeting of the Council of Safety, Feb. 22cl, 17/6.
Present :

William Ewen. Archibald Bulloch.

William LeConte. John Martin.

George "Walton. John Girardeau.

Wm. O'Brien. John Stirk.

John Houstoim. John Wereat.
Edward Telfair.

Agreeable to the order of the day, the Board proceeded
to consider the propriety of extending the Resolution of
the Continental Congress in a similar manner to that of
South Carolina.

ORDERED, that it be further postponed till to-morrow
morning.

[Reed., Savannah, 25th October, 1775, of William
Ewen, Esqr., President of the Council of Safety, the sum
of six hundred and sixty-seven pounds, str., which we
promise to be accountable for to the Council of Safety
when thereunto required.

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(The above in brackets appears on a page in the min
utes of the Council of Safety just at this point, and is
here given as in the original manuscript).

IN THE COUNCIL OE SAFETY,
SAVANNAH, March 2, 17/6.

For the safety of the Province, and the good of the
United Colonies, it is unanimously

RESOLVED, That the houses in the town of Savannah,
and the hamlets thereunto belonging, together with the
shipping now in the port of Savannah, the property of,
or appertaining to the friends of America, who have as
sociated and appeared, or who shall appear in the present
alarm to defend the same, and also the houses of widows
and orphans, and none others, be forthwith valued and
appraised.

ORDERED, That Messrs. Joseph Clay, Joseph Reynolds,
John McLuer, Joseph Dunlap, and John Glen, or any
three of them, be a Committee for that purpose, and that
they make a return of such value and appraisement, to
the Council of Safety to-morrow morning, 9 O'clock, or
as soon after as possible.

RESOLVED, That the delegates for this Province shall
be instructed to apply to the Continental Congress for an

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indemnification to such persons who shall suffer in the
defence of this town or shipping.

RESOLVED, That it shall be considered as a defection
from the cause of America, and a desertion of property
in such persons who have and shall leave the town of
Savannah, or the hamlets thereunto belonging, during
the present alarm, and such persons shall be precluded
from any support or countenance towards obtaining an
indemnification.

RESOLVED, That it be incumbent upon the friends of
America in this Province to defend the metropolis as
long as the same shall be tenable.

RESOLVED, That rather than the same shall be held and
occupied by our enemies, or the shipping now in the port
of Savannah taken and employed by them, that the same
shall be burnt and destroyed.

RESOLVED, That orders shall be issued to the com
manding officer, directing him to have the foregoing reso
lutions put into execution.

IN THE COUNCIL OF SAFETY,
SAVANNAH, March i, 1776.

WHEREAS, the resolution of the Hon. the Continental
Congress, restraining the exportation of rice from the
United Colonies for a time, having expired this day,
without any further or additional restraint, as we know
of, it now lies with the Council of Safety for this Prov
ince either farther to restrain the exportation, or to per
mit it. And whereas a formidable force, both by sea
and land, having invaded this Province for several weeks

112 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

past, and it appearing, by the arrival of such force, that
the cause of the said Continental restrictions is not re
moved :

RESOLVED, THEREFORE, That no ships loaded with rice,
or any other article of produce, in this Province, shall
be permitted to sail without leave of the Council of Safety
or next Congress, except such vessels as are or shall be
permitted to sail for the purpose of procuring the neces
sary means of defence.

RESOLVED, That in case any loss shall be sustained
by such detention, the delegates of this Province shall be
instructed to apply to the Continental Congress to make
the reimbursement for such loss a general charge.

ORDERED, That the rudders be unshipped, and the rig
ging and sails taken away and secured from the several
vessels now riding in the port of Savannah.

Orders to Col. LACHLAN MC!NTOSH.

SIR : You will enforce and have executed the afore
mentioned resolutions and order, the resolution hereto
fore delivered to you as of the Council of Safety being
erroneous; and any permit you may have given in con
sequence, you will please to recall.

By order of the Council of Safety,

WM. EWEN, President.
EDWARD LANGWORTHY, Secretary.
A true copy from the Minutes.

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IN THE COUNCIL OF SAFETY,
SAVANNAH, March 2, 1776.

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS, many householders in the town of Savan
nah, and the hamlets thereunto belonging, have basely
deserted their habitations since the commencement of the
present alarms;

AND WHEREAS, some of them are associates in the
great American Union, and by consequence, their lives
and fortunes bound to support it ; And whereas, there is
a number of shipping in the port of Savannah belonging
and appertaining to persons resident in this Province;
And whereas, wre deem it incumbent upon every person,
more especially those who have associated, to defend their
property with their lives;

These are, therefore, to cite and admonish all persons
holding any property in the town, or hamlets, or ship
ping aforesaid, forthwith to repair to head-quarters, in
Savannah, to defend the same, on pain of suffering all
the consequences contained in the foregoing resolutions.

By order of the Council of Safety,

WM. EWEN, President.

8 r r— TO! 1

114 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

At a meeting of Council of Safety, the 3Oth clay of
April, 1776.

Present :

John Wereat. George Walton.

John Girardeau. Jonathan Bryan.

Benjamin Andrew. Daniel Roberts.
Samuel Saltus.

RESOLVED, That the following address be presented to
his Excellency the President, and that Messrs. Wereat
and Roberts do wait on his Excellency to know when he
will be pleased to receive the same.

GEORGIA :

To His Excellency Archibald Bulloch, Esquire, President
and Commander in Chief of the Province of Georgia:

THE ADDRESS OF THE COUNCIL OF SAFETY
FOR THE SAID PROVINCE.

May it please your Excellency:

The long session of the late Congress, together with
the season of the year, called particularly for a speedy
recess, and the House having adjourned while you were
out of town, it becomes more particularly necessary for
us to address your Excellency : We therefore, with un
feigned confidence and regard, beg leave to congratulate
not only your Excellency on your appointment to, but
your country on your acceptance of the supreme com
mand in this Province.

It would be needless and tedious to recount the various
and yet multiplying oppressions which have driven the

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people of this Province to erect that Government, which
they have called upon you to see executed : Suffice it
then to declare that it was the only alternative of anarchy
and misery, and by consequence the effect of dire neces
sity.

Your Excellency well knows that it was the endeavor
of the Congress to stop every avenue of vice and op
pression, lest the infant virtue of a still more infant
Province might in time rankle into corruption : And we
doubt not but that by your Excellency's exertions, all the
resolutions made, or adopted by Congress will be en
forced with firmness, without regard to any individual,
or any set of men ; for no Government can be said to be
established, while any part of the community refuse sub
mission to its authority.

In the discharge of this arduous and important task,
your Excellency may rely on our constant and best en
deavors to assist and support you.

Messrs. John Wereat and Dan'l. Roberts waited on
the President, who informed them that he would be ready
to receive their address on to-morrow morning at nine
o'clock.

116 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

At a meeting of the Council of Safety, ist May, 1776.
Present :

Jonathan Bryan. George Walton.

Sam'l Saltus. John Girardeau.

Benjn. Andrew. John Wereat.

John Houstoun. Dan'l Roberts.

The Board waited on his Excellency the President with
their Address, to which he was pleased to give the fol
lowing answer:

To the Honorable the Members of the Council of Safety
of the Province of Georgia.

Honorable Gentlemen:

I am much obliged to you for your kind expressions
of congratulation on my appointment to the supreme
command of this Colony. When I reflect from whence
the appointment is derived, that of the free and unco.>
rupt suffrages of my fellow-citizens, it cannot fail 10
stimulate me to the most vigorous exertions in the dis
charge of the important duties to which I am called, by
the late wise and salutary regulations adopted by our
Provincial Congress.

While I have the advice and assistance of gentlemen
of known integrity and abilities, I doubt not but I shall
be enabled to enforce and carry into execution every
resolve and law of Congress ; and, as far as lies with me,
my country may depend I will, with a becoming firmness
and the greatest impartiality, always endeavor to cause
justice in mercy to be executed.

ARCHD. BULLOCK.

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His excellency the President waited on the Board and
took the chair.

GEORGIA :

By his Excellency the President in the Council of Safety.

To the Treasurers:

Pay George \Yalton, Esqr., for the use of the First
Troop of Horse the sum of fifty pounds sterling, out of
any monies of the General Fund.

(Signed) A. BULLOCH.

ORDERED, that Mr. Charles Middleton be immediately
commissioned as Second Lieutenant of the First Troop
of Horse.

ORDERED, that the causeway at Great Ogechee Ferry
be forthwith repaired, and that the Governor's negroes
be employed for that purpose, and that James Maxwell
and Fowler Brisbane, Esqr., be appointed Commission
ers to superintend the same.

ORDERED, that Hepworth Carter be commissionated as
Third Lieutenant of the Saint John's Rangers.

ORDERED, that the sum of fifty pounds be borrowed
from the Colony Fund, and lent to the fund ordered for
the supply of the Troops of Horse until bills can be
emitted.

ORDERED, that permission be granted to John Graham,
Esqr., to depart the Province with his family, with nec
essary servants and provisions for the voyage, leaving his
property behind him for the security of his creditors, and
he has leave to return.

118 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

That Thomas Tallemack also be permitted to depart
the Province, giving security in the sum of one hundred
pounds against any claims which may be brought against
him.

GEORGIA:

By his Excellency Archibald Bullock, Esqr., President
and Commander in Chief of the Colony aforesaid, in
the Honorable the Council of Safety.

To the Hon. Major Walton:

SIR: — It has been represented to me in Council that
there are many disaffected persons possessed of and are
now building and erecting divers forts and fortifications,
without any leave or authority for the same. You are,
therefore, requested and empowered as well, to make the
necessary inquiry with respect to the premises, as in gen
eral to inquire into the state of the frontier part of this
Province, and to make report of the same to me.

(Signed) A. BULLOCH.

Like orders were also sent to Col. Robert Rae, Chair
man of the Committee for the Town and District of Au
gusta.

The inhabitants of the Town and District of Augusta
having applied to me, by their Committee, for a new elec
tion of Delegates to serve in Provincial Congress, and
being willing to do all in my power to quiet and content
the minds of the people, do hereby, with the advice of the
Honorable the Council of Safety, order and direct that the
inhabitants of said Town and District do proceed to a
new election of Delegates in manner as is directed by
Resolutions of Congress.

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ORDERED, that two hundred weight of gunpowder and
four hundred weight of lead be delivered to Col. Wells,
for the use of the Town and District of Augusta.

N. B. — G. P. deliv'd y's ord'd to a boatman, w'ch he
lost, and ye ammunition was never received.

John Glen,* Esqr., waited on the Board and qualified
as Chief Justice of this Province.

William Stephen,* Esqr., also qualified as Attorney-
General.

James Jackson, likewise qualified as Clerk of the Court
of Sessions.

At a meeting of the Council of Safety, May 2cl, 1776.
Present :

Archb. Bui loch, Prest. John Wereat.

Willm. LeConte. Benjamin Andrew.

John Bohun Girardean. Samuel Saltus.

Daniel Roberts. Jonathan Bryan.
John Houstoun.

Mr John Simpson having applied to the Board for leave
to depart the Province, it was granted him.

ORDERED, that the Council of Safety do meet on the
second and last Tuesday of every month.

ORDERED, that Daniel Roberts, Esqr., and Willm. Le
Conte be a Committee to examine what dry goods are
now in the town of Savannah.

'•"Afterwards a Royalist.

120 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

Col. Elbert made application for an order to procure
such arms, bayonets and gun locks as may be in charge of
Capt. Jacob Walthour at Ebenezer, for the use of the Bat-
tallion, which was granted.

ORDERED, that John Graham do give a bond of 10,000
as security to the public on his departure from the Prov
ince.

Mr. Murray also is permitted to depart the Province
on the same terms.

ORDERED, that twenty pounds be advanced to Capt.
Brown, to enable him to enlist more men for the service
of the Scout Boat.

GEORGIA :

B\ His Excellency Archibald Bullock, Esquire, President
and Commander in Chief of the Province of Georgia,
in Council:

A PROCLAMATION.

WHEREAS, The honorable Continental Congress have,
among other things, Resolved, that the Venders of dry
goods ought not to take advantage of the scarcity that
might be occasioned by the non-importation agreement
under pain of being declared inimical to the liberties of
America. And whereas, the Provincial Congress have,
Resolved, that whoever shall depreciate the Currency of
this Province, shall forfeit all right to protection from the
said Congress, or any authority acting under it ; and,

WHEREAS, It hath been represented to me in Coun
cil, that several persons in the Province do, notwithstand
ing the above Resolutions, sell their goods at a most ex
orbitant price, to the great prejudice of the inhabitants of

JOURNAL OF COUNCIL OF SAFETY. 121

this Province, especially the poor. I have therefore
thought fit, with the advice and consent of the Council
aforesaid, to issue this my proclamation, notifying to all
persons, whom it doth or may concern, that if they per
sist in their unwarrantable proceedings, they will be
subject to the pains and penalties annexed to the fore
going Resolutions and their names published accordingly.

(Signed) ARCD. BULLOCH.

ORDERED, that orders be forthwith issued to elect mem
bers to sit in Congress for such Parishes and Districts,
as may be unrepresented, by the appointment of their
members to places of profit, etc : And that on Monday
seven night they proceed to the election of Parochial
Committees as well as such members.

ORDERED, that a letter be wrote to Mr. Rae to recall the
orders for a new election in the Town and. district of
Augusta, alledging the reasons why the present members
must be still continued.

Capt. Elijah Steel made application for payment of the
rum taken from him in February last, and in considera
tion of the low price of the same, it was agreed he should
be paid in Continental Currency.

122 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

At a Council of Safety the I4th day of May, 17/6.

Present

His Excellency the Prest. John Wereat.

Benj. Andrew. George Mclntosh.

John Bohun Girardeau. Jonathan Cochrane.

Wm. LeConte. John Adam Treutlen.
John Baker.

Received and read letters from Messrs. John and
George Walton, with an inclosed deposition of John Mc-
Cormick, that Harry Stewart had arrived at Toquah
Town on the 26th April last, with twenty horse-load of
ammunition as presents for the Cherokees ; that they had
lost four Indians of their party, together with a consider
able quantity of their ammunition in an engagement
(on their march) with some of the Western tribes of
Indians.

This deponent further observed that just before he
left the Nation, a party of Cherokees returned from
Wataga, or some other of the back settlements of Vir
ginians that are nearest them, and say they have killed
eight white persons, and that they intend to continue
killing until they drive them quite off the land. And
this deponent further saith that the Indians had a war
dance 'round the scalps before he left the Nation.

Read also an intercepted letter of Andrew McLean
from Alexander Cameron, which letter was laid before
the Committee at Augusta, who not being satisfied with
Mr. McLean for carrying on a correspondence with the
professed enemies of our country, ordered him to appear
before his Excellency and this Board, which he promised
to perform on or before Tuesday next. Mr. John Wai-

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ton also informs of the murder of an Indian by one Few
and a party of men under his command.

ORDERED, that Mr. Yorke and Mr. Sykes, two gentle
men from Philadelphia, be permitted to pass to Cockspur

and to return.

Capt. Win. Mclntosh having informed his Excellency
that Messrs. \Yrights have a strong fort at their planta
tion, with twenty white men and all their slaves armed,
and also a considerable quantity of provision and ammu
nition.

That Mr. Martin Jollie, upon St. Mary's River, keeps
a magazine of provisions to supply our enemies, and that
he was creditably informed that he had sixteen barrels
of gunpowder now in his possession, and was lately ap
pointed Colonel of all the troops he can raise between
St. John's and Mary's ; that there were also a number
of vessels in the River St. Mary's that might be easily
taken, if there are no men-of-war there to protect them;

That it will be necessary to build a log house, or pun
cheon fort, wherever it may be thought proper to station
a detachment of the First Troop of Horse on the Alata-
maha, which place Capt. Mclntosh will point out — the
same likewise to be done on St. Mary's ;

That one Anderson had a great stock of cattle in East
Florida, that he thought it requisite that orders should
be immediately issued to the said Anderson to remove
his stock into this Province;

That if a boat was stationed at Gaskins it will answer
the purpose of a stationed boat.

124 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

GEORGIA :

By his Excellency Archibald Bullock, Esqr., President
and Commander in Chief of said Province.

To Capt. William Mclntosh:

You are hereby ordered and required to go with the
Troop of Horse under your command and take the fort
now in possession of Germain and Charles Wright, and
to disarm and take all the white men you may find there;
and also all negroes with arms, and secure them till fur
ther orders, together with all provisions, arms and am
munition.

You are then to proceed to St. Mary's, or wherever
else you may deem it necessary in any part of East Flor
ida, and particularly to apprehend and bring to Savannah
the body of Martin Jollie, after securing the provisions
he now has in his magazine, and all the gun powder, arms
and ammunition he may have in his possession ; and
likewise to apprehend and send to Savannah any other
persons whose going at large may endanger the liberties
of America. And, further, if you find it practicable,
you may take such vessels as are now lying in St. Mary's
River, and do such other things as may appear to you
necessary for the good of the public service.

(Signed) A. BULLOCH.

ORDERED that one hundred weight of gunpowder and
four hundred weight of ball be delivered to Capt. Wil
liam Mclntosh.

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At a meeting of the Council of Safety, the I5th day of
May, 1776.

Present :

His Excellency the Prest. John Wereat.

George Mclntosh. Benjamin Andrew.

John Adam Treutlen. John Cochrane.

John Girardeau- Col. Baker.

Jonathan Bryan. William LeConte.

Air. Thomas Ried presented a petition to the Board,
respecting the indigo taken in the river by Capt. Brown.

ORDERED, that it be referred to the consideration of
the Congress.

Read a letter from Air. Galphin directed to Mr. John
Wereat, proposing that he would go to the northward
with some of the principal men of the Creeks and Chero-
kees in order to keep the Indians peaceable, etc.

ORDERED, that a letter be sent to Mr. Galphin, alledg-
ing such reasons for his not going at present, as may
be satisfactO'ry to him, and that orders be issued to the
Captains of the two Troops of Horse, that they exert
their utmost endeavors to prevent the murder of any
Indians in the Back Country, and that they use their
utmost efforts to apprehend the man, who lately killed
the Indian.

ORDERED, that commissions be made out for John
Hardy as Captain of the Artillery Company at Sunbury,
and Nathaniel Saxton as Captain of the Volunteer Com
pany of Militia at Sunbury.

ORDERED, that commissions be made out for Peter

126 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

Shand, as Captain, James Roberts, First Lieutenant and
Theophilus Lunclay as Second Lieutenant of a Volunteer
Company of Militia in the Parish of Saint George.

Mr. James Hovenden presented his account to this
Board, amounting to £8, o, o sterling, which was passed
and ordered payment.

Mrs. Agnes Rambsay petitioned for leave to depart the
Province in Capt. George Wardell's Brig, which was
granted her.

ORDERED, that a rowing-boat, cockswain and six men
be forthwith procured for the service O'f the public.

ORDERED that the Militia now doing duty at Ebenezer
be discharged.

ORDERED, that the Secretary do forthwith write to
the several Parishes and Districts within this Province,
in order to convene the Congress on the first Tuesday in
June next.

GEORGIA :

By His Excellency Arch. Bullock, Esquire, President and
Commander in Chief of the said Province:

WHEREAS, The season of the year particularly rendered
it necessary for the late Congress to be adjourned, that
the country members might have an opportunity of fin
ishing their planting business and settling their other
domestic concerns ; and in consequence thereof, sundry
affairs of great importance to the public were postponed
to future consideration.

I have, therefore, thought fit by and with the advice
of the honorable the Council to summon the members

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of the said Congress at Savannah, on Tuesday the fourth
day of June next, in order to proceed to finish the said
business, and to dispatch such other matters, as may
appear requisite for the preservation and maintenance
of the peace, welfare and security of the Province.

(Signed) A. BULLOCH.

At a meeting of the Council of Safety, May i6th, 1776.
Present :

His Excellency the Prest. Benjamin Andrew.

John Adam Treutlen. John Wereat.

John Girardeau. William Le Conte.

Jonathan Cochrane. George Mclntosh.

Colonel Baker. Jonathan Bryan.

Capt. Phoenix presented a petition to the Board re
questing that he might be appointed Adjutant to one of
the Battalions of Militia.

ORDERED that it be referred to the field officers.

Mr. Andrew McLean made application for permission
to go down to Cockspur : which being considered, it was
refused.

ORDERS TO CAPTAIN WM. M'!NTOSH.

SIR : — You are hereby ordered and required to build
a log house, or puncheon fort, on the place, where you
find it necessary to station a detachment of Horse under
your command on the Altamaha River, and likewise to
do the same at the most convenient place on Saint Mary's.

128 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

And you are further required to remove the stock belong
ing to one Anderson from East Florida into this Prov
ince, and in like manner to remove all the stock of such
persons as reside among us — and to see that a boat be
stationed at Gaskins. And as there has been information
made of the murder of an Indian by one Few, and a
party of men under his command, you are therefore or
dered to use your utmost efforts to apprehend the said
Few and to bring him to Savannah, and at all times to
do whatever may be in your power, to prevent the mur
der of any Indians in the Back Country.

(Signed) A. BUI^OCH.

ORDERS TO CAPTAIN LEONARD MARBURY.

SIR : — Whereas information has been received that one
Few, and a company under his command, have killed an
Indian and several accounts received respecting the In
dians are very unfavorable, you are therefore ordered
and require to use your utmost efforts to prevent the
murder of any Indians in the Back County and to ap
prehend the said Few, or any person that may be guilty
of the above mentioned murder, or who may in any wise
disturb the peace, or render himself obnoxious to the
friends of liberty in the Back Country.

(Signed) A. BULLOCK.

Messrs. John Baker, George Mclntosh, Jonathan
Bryan, John Girardeau, William Le Conte, Benjamin
Andrew, Jonathan Cochrane, and Adam Treutlen took
the following oath as Justices of the Quorum :

I, A. B. do swear, that as Justice of the Peace for

I will faithfully and impartially do

equal right to the poor and to the rich, to the utmost
of my power and ability. And that I will take nothing

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for my office of Justice of the Peace, but what is allowed
by the laws of the Province; and I will not direct, nor
cause to be directed any warrant, or precept (by me to
me made) to the parties, but I will direct them to a lawful
Constable or Constables to do execution thereof; and I
will endeavor at all times to preserve the public peace,
and maintain the Constitutional Authority of this Coun
try, as established by Congress.

At a meeting of the Council of Safety, i/th May 1776.

Present :

His Excellency the Prest. Benj. Andrew.

John Girardean- George Mclntosh.

Jonathan Cochrane. John Wereat.

Jonathan Bryan. John Adam Treutlen.

Air. Andrew McLean waited on the Board and assured
the Board, on his word of honor, that the letter sent by
the Committee at Augusta was the very last he ever re
ceived from Mr. Alexander Cameron, and that since he
signed the Association he never has kept up any corre
spondence with him, or Mr John Stewart, or any other
professed enemy to America.

Mr. John Hill presented a petition from the inhabitants
of the Ceded Lands, requesting that another Troop of
Horse might be raised for the defense of the back set
tlement.

ORDERED, that it be referred to the consideration of
the Congress.

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At a meeting of the Council May 236., 1776.

Present :

His Excellency the Prest. John Houstoun.

Samuel Saltus. John Wereat.

Adam Fowler Brisbane. John Girardeau.

Benjamin Andrew. Jonathan Cochrane.
James Scriven.

Mr. James Robertson and Mr. William Stephens laid
before the Board a petition from James Butler and Mar
garet Crocker, which being read and considered it was
ordered to be referred to the Congress.

Read a letter from the Chief Justice, John Glen, Esqr.,
requesting that some person or persons may be appointed
to procure the jury box now at Ebenezer, and also1 that
the Court House might be cleaned and repaired, in order
the Court of General Sessions may be held there.

ORDERED that Mr. John Wereat and Mr. James Jack
son do repair forthwith to Ebenezer for the said jury
box, and that the Provost Marshal be directed to put the
Court House in order.

Messrs. Samuel Saltus, James Scriven and Adam Fow
ler Brisbane took the oath appointed, as Justices of the
Quorum.

ORDERED, that orders be forthwith issued to Capt.
Hardy to employ men and boats and to draught as many
of the Militia as may be necessary in order to assist them
in bringing the cannon, etc from Frederica.

Andrew Elton Wells waited on the Board and took
the oath appointed, as Justice of the Peace for the Parish
of St. Philip; and also delivered in sundry accounts
which were ordered to be referred to the Congress.

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At a meeting of the Council 28th May, 1776.
Present :

His Excellency the Prest. Samuel Saltus.

John Bohun Girardeau. Fowler Brisbane.

James Scriven. Benjamin Andrew.

Daniel Roberts- John Wereat.

Mr. Daniel Roberts took his oath as one of the Jus
tices of the Quorum.

Capt. Lee laid before the Board his account current,
by which it appeared there is a balance of £158, 175.-
8 3/4d. clue to him, but as there is no money at present
in the treasury, it was agreed that the President should
advance to him part of the same, till the meeting of
Congress.

Information being made that a quantity of goods be
longing to Mr. Robert Smith is now on board Captain
Inglis, ordered that it be referred to the Parochial Com
mittee to secure the said goods for the use of the peo
ple of this Province.

Mrs. Sybilla Neidlinger laid her account before the
Board, amounting in the whole to £30, 35., o d.

ORDERED, that his Excellency the President do dis
charge the same.

ORDERED, that letters be wrote to the several Parochial
Committees throughout the Province, ordering them to
collect the fines from non-associates.

132 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

At a meeting of the Council May 29th, 17/6.
Present :

His Excellency the Prest. Samuel Saltus.

Adam Fowler Brisbane. John Girardeau.

Daniel Roberts. James Scriven.
John Wereat.

His Excellency the President laid before the Board the
following receipts, viz. :

Rec'd, Savannah, 23d May, 1776, of his Excellency
the President, nine hundred pounds sterling, for the use
of the Georgia Battalion.

£900 JOSEPH HABERSHAM, Major.

Rec'd May 23d, 1776, of Arcd. Bulloch, on account
of the public, three pounds, for my husband's wages.

SARAH KIRK.

Rec'd May 28th, 1776, of his Excellency Archd. Bul
loch, Esqr., five pounds on account of the public, in part
of my husband's wages.

^ EUZB. LANGEORD.

Rec'd May 23d, 1776, of his Excellency Archibd. Bul
loch, Esqr., the sum of eight pounds, on account of my
husband, John Brown.

^ FRANCES BROWN.

Rec'd May 29th, 1776, of his Excellency Archd. Bul
loch, Esqr., the sum of three pounds, ten shillings, for
George Richardson, riding expenses.

^ FREDERICK ROSSBURGH.

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ORDERED, that Mr. Ambrose Wright do deliver to the
Commanding Officer of the Battalion forty blankets for
the use of the men.

WHEREAS it is necessary that the Court House should
be repaired and cleaned, that the Court of Session may be
held there, ordered, therefore, that the Guard be moved
from the said Court House to Mr. Hume's house, the
late Attorney General, or any other house that may be
agreeable to the gentlemen of the Battalion.

FORM OF AN OATH FOR CONSTABLES.

You shall well and truly serve in the office of Constable

for the Parish of for the year ensuing,

or until you shall be lawfully discharged therefrom, or
until another shall be sworn in your place, you shall also
well and truly do and execute all things belonging to
the said office, according to the best of your skill and
knowledge, and at all times do your utmost to support
the Constitutional Authority of this Province, as estab
lished by Congress. So help me God.

At a meeting of the Council, May 3Oth, 1776.

Present :

His Excellency Archd. Bulloch. Samuel Saltus.

Adam Fowler Brisbane. Danl. Roberts.

Jno. Bohun Girardeau. Benjn. Andrew.

John Wereat. James Scriven.

The President laid the following letters before the
Board :

SIR: — I received a note from Mr. Langworthy to de-

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sire the keys of Mr. Hume's house, as you had ordered
it should be made use of as a Guard house during the
sitting of the sessions. The house has received very
great damage from the companies that have been in it
(during the alarm), such as ripping down the whole of
the paper, burning the chimney piece in the best room,
etc. The Attorneys were just about fitting it up, for the
reception of a family, therefore would be very glad if
some other house could be thought of, that might answer
full as well, without the same inconveniences.

I am sir, yours, etc.,

JAMES HOUSTOUN.

Wednesday, 5 o'clock.
His Excellency, Etc., to Doctor Houstoun :

SIR : — I was this moment favored with yours of this
date, in answer to a note received from Mr. Langworthy
- -his request to you was in consequence of the unanimous
opinion of the Council this morning and from wrhich I
cannot depart. I am sorry for any loss that individuals
may sustain, but the public good must be considered.

I am, etc.,

A. BULLOCH.

SAVANNAH, 29th May, 17/6.
To the Commanding Officer of the Guard.

SIR : — It was the unanimous opinion of the Council
that Mr. Hume's house should be made use of as a guard
house, and upon application to Dr. James Houstoun for
the keys, it seems there are none to be procured. You

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will, therefore, endeavor by the best means in your power
to enter the house and make use of it accordingly.

A. BULLOCH.

His Excellency laid before the Board an order amount-
to £14-0-0 due to Mrs. McFarlin, which it appeared
he had paid ; also the following receipt :

Received May 3Oth, i//6, of Archd. Bulloch, seven
pounds, for going express to Charlestown on public
service.

his

RODOLP x STROHAGER.
mark.

His Excellency paid Mrs. Neidlinger ten pounds in
part of an account due to John Neidlinger, her husband,
for acting as Sexton of this Parish.

Received June 3d. i//6, of his Excellency Archd. Bul
loch, Esqr., the sum of fifty pounds, on account of the
public.

THOS. LEE.

His Excellency paid Capt. Joseph Davlin thirty pounds
in part of an account due to his volunteer company at
Augusta.

136 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

r

At a meeting of the Council, June 5th, 1776.
Present :

His Excellency the Prest. John Wereat.

Adam Fowler Brisbane. Jonathan Cochrane.

John Bohun Girardeau. William LeConte.

Jonathan Bryan. George Mclntosh.
Benjn. Andrew.

ORDERED, that orders be forthwith issued to the com
manding officer of the First Regiment of Militia to
draught and bring to town the several Companies in the
Parish of Christ Church, and that they be in barracks.

At a meeting of the Council June 8th, 17/6.
Present :

His Excellency the Prest. George Mclntosh.

Jno. Adam Treutlen. Benjn. Andrew.

William Le Conte. John Wereat.

Jonathan Cochrane. John Houstoun.

ORDERED, that orders do issue to Col. Baker to hire
a number of negroes to finish in a more proper manner
the intrenchments about Sunbury.

That Col. Mclntosh do reinforce the present detach
ment now there with as many of the battalion as will
make a company.

That Capt. Saxton do draft one-half the Company of
the District residing in or near the Town, and that he

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be directed to summon them to appear under arms every
day, till the present alarm ceases, or the President and
Council shall think proper to direct otherwise.

Mrs. Ann Nichols presented a petition to the Board.
Ordered that it be referred to the Congress.

ORDERED, that a quarter cask of rum be redelivered to
Mrs. McKnight.

ORDERED, that Commissions be issued for the follow
ing gentlemen, viz. : John Fieri, as Captain ; Christopher
Cramer, First Lieutenant; Jacob Ihle, Senr., Second
Lieutenant; Christian Steiner, Third Lieutenant, of a
companv in the Lower District of the Parish of St.
Matthew, Second Battalion in the First Regiment.

Received, June the 8th, 1776, of Archibald Bulloch,
seventy-eight pounds, sixteen shillings, for a hogshead
of rum for the use of the public.

JAMES GRAY.

His Excellency laid before the Board a receipt in full
for Capt. Davlin's account, the whole amounting to forty-
five pounds, sixteen shillings.

Received of Archcl. Bulloch one hundred pounds, for
Capt. Marbury's Troop of Horse. I say received this
8th June, 1776, on account of the public.

Jos. WALKER.

Received June loth, 1776, of Archd. Bulloch, thirty
pounds, on account of the public.

LUKE MANN.

ORDERED, that a commission be issued for Mr. Patter
son, as Second Lieutenant of Capt. Cuthbert's Company.

138 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

At a meeting of the Council Tuesday, June n, 17/6.
Present :

His Excellency the Prest. George Mclntosh.

Jonathan Cochrane. Benj. Andrew.

John Wereat. Dan'l Roberts.
John Girardeau.

WHEREAS, it appears that the men in Capt. Cuthbert's
Company are dissatisfied with the return of a Lieutenant;
ordered, therefore, that orders be issued for a new elec
tion.

Received, June nth, 17/6, of Archd. Bulloch, Esqr.,
one hundred and fifty pounds, on account of the public.

WM. MdNTOSH.

Received, June I3th, 1/76, of Archd. Bulloch, Esqr.,
three pounds, on account of the public.

^ RODOLPH STROHAGER.

Received, I3th June, 1776, from his Excellency the
President, the sum of twenty pounds, being an order
from Major Habersham.

$3 JOHN HOLMES.

Received, June I5th, 1776, of Archibald Bulloch, fifty
two pounds, on account of the public.

THOS. LEE.

Received, June I5th, 1776, of Archd. Bulloch, eighteen
pounds, on account of the public, for Luke Mann, Com
missary.

SAM'L. MILLER.

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At a meeting of the Council June 18, 1776.

Present :

His Excellency the Prest. Benjamin Andrew.

John Wereat. John. Cochrane.

John Adam Treutlen. George Mclntosh.

John Bryan. John Houstoun.

John Girardeau. Adam Fowler Brisbane.

His Excellency the President laid before this Board a
letter from Jno. Rutledge, Esqr., informing us that Gen
eral Lee desired that we should send two of our Council
to Charlestown, which being considered it was agreed to
send Messrs. Jonathan Bryan 'and Houstoun, and also
Colonel Lachlan Mclntosh.

Daniel McMurphy, Francis Stringer and David Lewis
waited on the Board and qualified as Justices of the
Peace for the Parish of St. George.

At a meeting of the Council, June igth, 1776.

Present :

His Excellency. Archd. Bulloch.
Adam Fowler Brisbane. George Mclntosh.
John Adam Treutlen. John \Yereat.

Jonathan Bryan. Jonathan Cochrane.

Wm. LeConte. Benjamin Andrew.

Mr. John Hill waited on the Board and took the test
as lieutenant of the Troop of Horse.

James Goldwire and Philip Howell, Esqrs., waited

140 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

on the Board and qualified as Justices of the Peace for
the Parish of St. Matthew.

Wm. Jackson, Esq., waited on the Board and qualified
as Justice of the Peace for the Parish of Saint Paul.

Capt. Woodruffe attended the Board and laid before
them sundry papers and affidavits, respecting a vessel that
arrived in Sapelo River, loaded with rum, sugar, osna-
bergs, etc., that as the said sloop was registered at St.
Augustine, he, the said Woodruffe took possession of
the said vessel, etc.

The Board taking the premises into consideration is
sued the following orders to Capt. \Yoodruffe.

SIR: — You are hereby ordered immediately to dis
charge the sloop and schooner with their cargoes \vhich
you boarded in Sapelo River and brought round to Sun-
bury, as also all hands and every other thing belonging
to the said vessels.

(Signed) A. BULLOCH.

At a meeting of the Council, June 2Oth, 1/76.
Present :

His Excellency, Archd. Bulloch.
Adam Fowler Brisbane. Benjamin Andrew.
John Adam Treutlen. George Mclntosh.

John Bohun Girardeau. John \Yereat.
Jonathan Cochrane. Jonn. Bryan.

Received, June igth, 1/76, of Archd. Bulloch, one him-

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dred and fifteen pounds, being the sum he received from
Captain Pooler for the use of the public.

EWEN & O'BRYAN, Treasurers.

ORDERED, that every man liable to bear arms shall do
militia duty in the Parish, or District where he resides,
unless he shall be enrolled in some volunteer company.

RESOLVED, that orders be issued to Capt. Saxton at
Sunbury, requiring him immediately to attend on this
Board.

ORDERED, that the inhabitants of the Cherokee Hill
District do militia duty in Capt. Richd. Wylly's com
pany.

His Excellency the President laid before the Board
the following Memorandum :

Please to let me have my orders in what manner I am
to act in regard to vessels, as also in what manner I am
to provide provisions for my people ; and shall be glad
your honor would impower to press a boat for the serv
ice of the country, as occasion may require and if I am
still to continue my station on Sutherland Bluff, and
shall be glad your excellency would grant me something
to show that I have done no more than my duty, as also
an order to the keepers of the Goals to discharge the ne
groes at the public expense, and to the commissary at
Sunbury for a supply of provisions to carry us home.

The Board ordered the following to be delivered to
Capt. Woodruffe.

Savannah, June 2oth, 1776.

SIR : — The Council took into consideration this morn
ing the sundry matters mentioned in the memorandum

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you delivered to me, and am to inform you in the first
place, that with regard to vessels you are to conduct
yourself according to the resolves of Congress ; and as
to providing provisions for your people, it is the opinion
of the Council, that when there are any detachments
of men on duty, the commanding officer is to provide for
them and make the same a public charge.

The pressing a boat for service is already allowed by
Congress ; and you have no occasion to continue your
station on Sutherland Bluff, as a party of the battalion
are doing duty on the Altamaha.

The expenses attending the negroes, to the time orders
were delivered to you, will be paid, and you may be sup
plied by the commissary at Sunbury with necessary pro
visions to carry your men home which will be likewise
defrayed.

I am sir, your humble servant,

(Signed) A. BULLOCH.
Capt. Woodruffe.

The following gentlemen were recommended and ap
proved as Justices of the Peace for the Parish of St.
Paul : John Walton, Robt. Rae, Wm. Goodgion, James
Grierson, Saml. Jack, Jacob Beal, Charles Crawford,
Henry Downs, Robert Hamilton and George Wells.

GEORGIA :

By His Excellency, Archd. Bulloch, Esquire, President
and Commander in Chief of the said Province.

To any of the Constables of the Parish of St. George:

WHEREAS, It has been represented to me, that not
withstanding orders were issued the thirteenth day of

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March last for the delivery of a parcel of negro slaves
to Quintin Pooler, merchant of Savannah, which said
negro slaves by a sufficient deed in the law were con
veyed to the Said Quintin Pooler by one William Mc-
Daniel, yet it appears that John Green and William
Christie of Saint George's Parish, planters, disregarding
the said orders, detain and keep in their possession the
said negroes ; therefore by and with the advice of the
Council, I do hereby order and require the said John
Green and William Christie to deliver the said negroes
to you or any of you, that the said negroes may continue
in the possession of Quintin Pooler, until it shall be de
termined otherwise by the laws agreeable to the Consti
tution of the Province.

(Signed) A. BUIVLOCH.

The following gentlemen were recommended and ap
proved as Justices of the Peace for the Kiokee District :
William Jackson, William Candler, Abraham Ayers,
William Few, Junior, Edwd. Cartledge and Dionysius
Wright.

At a meeting of Council, June 2ist, 1776.
Present :

His Excellency the Prest. Jno. Adam Treutlen.

Jonathan Bryan. Benjamin Andrew.

Adam Fowler Brisbane. Jonn. Cochrane.

John Wereat. William LeConte.
Geo. Mclntosh.

Mr. John Jones waited on the Board and qualified as
Justice of the Peace for the Town of Sunbury.

144 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

ORDERED, that his Excellency the President do issue
orders to Colonel Scriven in order to draught part of the
militia to bring the cannon from Frederica.

Capt. Miller and Mr. Jollie waited on the Board and
were interrogated respecting some rice that Capt. Miller
had sold to Mr. Jollie in East Florida, when it was the
opinion of the Board that Mr. Jollie be detained in this
Province, on his parole.

At a meeting of the Council, June 25th, 1/76.

Present :

His Excellency the Prest. Benjamin Andrew.
Adam Fowler Brisbane. John Adam Treutlen.

John Bohun Girardeau. .Jonathan Cochrane.
John Wereat. \Ym. LeConte.

Savannah, 24th June, 17/6. Received of his Excel
lency Archibald Bulloch, Esq., five pounds, for the use
of the Battery on Saltus' Island.

. O'BRYAN.

Received, June 24th, 1776, of Archibald Bulloch, fifty
pounds, on account of the public.

SAM'L ELBERT, Lt. Col.

^R^A!^d_of_Archd. Bulloch, forty shillings, the balance
of an account due from the public, in Ii4ll of all demands.

RICHD. KENNEDY.

Received. June 24th, 1776, of Archd. Bulloch, fourteen
shillings, on account of the public.

SAM'L SEEDS.

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Received, June 22d, 17/6, the sum of nine shillings,
on account of John Arnold.

3£ LUCY TONDEE.

Received, June 22d, i//6 of Archd. Bulloch, one
pound, five shillings.

^ FREDERICK ROSSBERGH.

ORDERED that commissions do issue for Mr. Stephen
Dickenson, First Lieutenant; Mr. John Kell, Second
Lieutenant, and Mr. John Lawson, Jr. Third Lieutenant
of a company of militia commanded by Captain Nathaniel
Saxton.

GEORGIA :

B\ his Excellency Archibald Bulloch, Esqr., President
and Commander in Chief of the said Province.

To Col. Sanil Elbert:

You are hereby dirtected to order all the out detach
ments of the Battalion to march without loss of time to
headquarters at Savannah, and the Militia of the Parish
where they are stationed are required to do duty in their
room.

(Signed) A. BULLOCH.

ORDERED, that commissions do issue for Abraham
Ravott, as Captain; Thomas Garnet, First Lieutenant;
Daniel Howell, Second Lieutenant, and James Dell,
Third Lieutenant, of a Company of Militia, Second Bat
talion First Regiment, Upper District of St. Matthew's
Parish.

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REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

At a meeting of the Council, June 26th, I//6.

Present :

His Excellency the Prest. William LeConte.

Adam Fowler Brisbane. Benjn. Andrew.

John Wereat. John Adam Treutlen.
Jonathan Cochrane.

Doctor Nathan Brownson waited on the Board, and
took his seat in the room of Col. Baker.

His Excellency the President laid before the Board the
Address of the Congress respecting those whose going at
large is dangerous to the liberties of America, when the
following list was proposed as containing persons of this
character :

Alexander Martin.
John Douglass.
John Hume.
Andrew Johnson.
Henry Preston.
James Kitching.
Willm. Read.
John Patton.
Thomas Johnson.
Charles Wm. McKinen.
Thomas Reid.
Philip Yonge.
William Lyford.
Alexander Begby.
Peter Edwards.
George Kincaid.
Nathaniel Hall.
Philip Moore.
Jno. B. Randell.

James Spalding.
Benj. Wilson.
George Baillie.
Thomas Netherclift.
Alexd. McGoun.
Robert Reid.
James Mossman.
Wm. Panton
William Skinner.
Francis Knowles.
Samuel Douglas.
Thomas Moody.
Lewis Johnson, Junr.
Joseph Farley.
James Robertson.
John Martin.
William Thompson.
John Jamieson.
Edwd. Telfair.

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Doctor Zubly. John Inglis.

Andrew Hewat. John Foulis.

Robert Porteous.

The Council were of opinion that his Excellency should
issue orders agreeable to the Resolve of Congress.

At a meeting of the Council, July ist, 1776.

Present :

His Excellency the Prest. Wm. LeConte.

John Adam Treutlen. John Girardeau.

Benj. Andrew. Nathan Brownson.

John Wereat. Jonathan Cochrane.

WHEREAS it appears to this Board, that Doctor Zubly*
and Mr. Edw. Telfair,* who were in custody, agreeable
to a resolve of Congress, were improperly and illegally
dismissed by the Chief Justice : It is therefore the opin
ion of this Board, that the said Dr. Zubly and Mr. Tel-
fair be taken again into custody, until it shall otherwise
be determined.

GEORGIA :

By His Excellency, Archd. Bulloch, Esquire, President,
Etc.

To Major Thomas Ross:

SIR : — You are hereby ordered and required to take
into safe custody the bodies of Doctor Zubly and Edward

*Edw. Telfair was afterwards zealous in the cause of liberty and became
Governor of the State. Doctor Zubly remained a royalist to the end, and his
property was confiscated after the war.

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Telfair (as their going at large will, it is thought, en
danger the public safety) and them safely keep until
further orders, and for so doing this shall be your war
rant.

(Signed) ARCHD. BULLOCK.

At a meeting of the Council, July 2nd, 17/6.
Present :

His Excellency the Prest. Benjamin Andrew.

John Adam Treutlen. Nathan Brownson.

John Bohun Girardeau. John Wereat.

Jonathan Cochrane. William LeConte.

His Excellency laid before the Board a letter from
Lieutenant Colonel Mclntosh, which being considered, it
was ordered, that no officer shall send any of the militia
to East Florida to make reprisals without orders for that
purpose from the President. That Colonel Scriven be
ordered to support Lieutenant Colonel Mclntosh with a
sufficient number of men to make a stand against the
troops of Indians from Augustine.

That Col. Mclntosh be ordered to make a stand with
the men under his command at Satilla's, and if he cannot
maintain his post there to retire to the Altamaha, etc.

That Captains Marbury and Hovenden do leave a
party of men, with a subaltern, to the westward, and
with the rest of their men do join with and assist Col.
Mclntosh.

The following gentlemen were recommended and ap-

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proved of as Magistrates for the lower districts of Saint
George's Parish, viz. : Nathaniel Miller, Thomas Bur
ton, Peter Shawn, Francis Hancock, William Lord,
Henry Jones, Nathan Hooker, John Smith, Thomas
Baulch, Mirick Davis and ye Rev. Josiah Lewis.

The following gentlemen were recommended and ap
proved of as Magistrates for the District of Queens-
borough, viz. : Daniel McMurphy, James Flyming,
Thomas Little, James Black, Thomas Lewis, Roger Law-
son, Abraham Wammock and Charles Harvey.

ORDERED that commissions do issue for Jacob Tusing,
as Captain ; Matthias Rahn, First Lieutenant, and Cas
per Griener, Second Lieutenant of Bethany Company of
Militia, the Second Battalion First Regiment. Also for
Israel Bird, as Captain; Frederick Restar, First Lieu
tenant, and Joshua Stafford, Second Lieutenant, of a
Militia Company in the Lower District in the Upper
Division of Saint Philip's Parish.

The following gentlemen were recommended and ap
proved of as Magistrates for the Parish of Saint Mat
thew : John Adam Treutlen, Philip Howell, James Gold-
wire, John Stirk, Jacob Casper Waldhauer, Abraham
Ravot, Daniel Bonnell, Benjn. Lanier, and John Goldwire.

The following gentlemen were recommended and ap
proved of as Magistrates for the Parish of Saint John's :
Benjamin Andrew. Samuel Saltus, Daniel Roberts, John
Jones, Job Colcock, James Scriven, John Baker, Senr.,
Parmenas Way, John Mitchell, Samuel Miller, John San-
diford, Gideon Dows and William Fox.

ORDERED, that commissions be issued for Francis Han
cock, as Captain; Charles Williams, First Lieutenant;
James Red. Second Lieutenant; and Edward Weathers,

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Third Lieutenant, of a Company of Militia in the Lower
District of St. George's Parish, Fourth Battalion.

That commissions be issued for John Dukart, as Cap
tain ; Thomas Lewis, First Lieutenant ; and Levi Emman
uel, as Second Lieutenant, of a Company of Militia in
the Lower District of Saint George, etc.

At a Council, July 5th, 1776.

Present :

His Excellency Archibald Bulloch
Jonathan Bryan. John Adam Treutlen.

Daniel Roberts. John Girardeau.

Benjamin Andrew. John Wereat.

John Houstoun. William LeConte.

Nathan Brownson.

ORDERED, that commissions be issued for Francis
Stringer, as Captain; John Ryal, First Lieutenant; Wil
liam Godby, Second Lieutenant; and William Ryal,
Third Lieutenant, of a Company of Militia in Lower
District of St. George's Parish.

That a commission be issued for Joseph Atkerson, as
Captain of a Company of Militia in the Lower District
of St. George's Parish, &c.

Mr. Jonathan Bryan, John Houstoun and Col. Mc-
Intosh waited on the Board and reported what they had
represented to General Lee relative to the state of the
Provinces, which was as follows, viz. :

The Deputies sent by desire of General Lee from the
Colony of Georgia, to confer with him upon the state

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of that Colony, and the mode of putting it in the best
posture of defense against all enemies, external and in
ternal, are of opinion, That it is evident that that Prov
ince is in a most weak and defenceless situation ; and be
sides that the intrinsic value of the lands, o<f other prop
erty in the Province, its situation as a frontier, fine inlets,
harbours and rivers, and plenty of provision, makes it of
the utmost consequence, perhaps equal to any other on the
continent in the great Cause of America, that as it is not
only liable to be attacked by sea on the east, in common
with the other colonies, from the south and west by the
garrisoned Province of the Floridas and the most numer
ous tribes of savages in America, and far less able than
any of them to bear it.

The Deputies sent from Georgia by desire of his Ex
cellency General Lee, to confer with him upon the state
of that Colony, in order to devise the best method of
putting it in a proper posture of defence, beg leave to
represent, That from the Weak and defenceless situation
of the Colony, surrounded as it is with enemies, it stands
in immediate need of assistance from the General Con
gress, and when they consider that however small the
Colony may be of itself, in a comparative point of view,
yet that from the great plenty of provisions, numerous
stocks o>f cattle, excellent inlets, harbours and rivers
(perhaps equal to any upon the Continent) with which
the Colony abounds ; and, above all, the firm attachment
of its inhabitants to the American Cause, they are led
to trust that the protection and security of that Colony
will be held an object of considerable importance.

Not one of the thirteen United Colonies is so weak
within, or so much exposed from without. To the east
the inhabitants suffer the ravages of British cruisers,
their negroes are daily inveigled and carried away from

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their plantations ; British fleets may be supplied with beef
from several large islands, \vell stocked with cattle, which
line their coasts and around which large ships may sail.
To the south they have the Province of East Florida,
the inhabitants and soldiery of which must of necessity
make inroads upon Georgia for the article of provision
with which they have been heretofore chiefly supplied.
Georgia here stands as a barrier to South Carolina, and
effectually secures that Province against like depreda
tions. The southern parts of Georgia contain vast stocks
of cattle, and our most valuable rice plantations lie that
way. By some late computations there are said to be up
wards of thirty thousand head of black cattle in the
Province, and hogs without number.

We have certain accounts of there being at this time
upwards of one thousand British troops in Saint Augus
tine. To the west and almost down upon the Georgia
line are the most numerous tribes of Indians now in
North America, viz. : the Creeks, Cherokees, Choctaws,
and a number of small tribes, in the whole at least
15,000 gun men. All these nations have been much
tampered with by the emissaries of Government, and
without the utmost exertions of prudence on our side,
it is feared may be brought to act against us. They are
so situated as to make it extremely convenient for our
enemies to supply them from East and West Florida
with ammunition and everything that they want. Our
last accounts from the Indians are rather unfavorable,
and when we consider their natural principle of infidelity,
and how much more able our enemies are to purchase
their friendship by presents, &c., than we are, there
seems to be the greatest reason to apprehend a rupture
with them, In such a case the fate of Georgia may be
easily conceived. Add to all these considerations the vast
numbers of negroes we have, perhaps of themselves
sufficient to subdue us. In point of number the blacks

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exceed the whites, and the ready channel of supply and
secure retreat which Saint Augustine affords, render
them much to be dreaded.

The conquest of Georgia would be considered as a
great acquisition by Great Britain. It is a most excellent
provision country, abounds with ship-timber and lumber
of all kinds, and is most conveniently situated for a place
of rendezvous to their shipping. Under all these circum
stances, it must certainly appear indispensably necessary
that measures be immediately taken for the defence and
security of that Province ; but the low situation in point
of means or ability of its inhabitants puts it out of their
power to do it of themselves, more especially as they
have been already put to a very great expense in conse
quence of the late descent upon them. The great object
seems to be men, fortifications, and a good understanding

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with the Indians. \\'e would, therefore, beg; leave to

d

propose :

ist. That his Excellency General Lee be requested to
state the peculiar situation of the Province of Georgia to
the General Congress, and to obtain directions from
them to raise and take into Continental pay so manv

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men as may be conceived to be sufficient to defend the
Province. (In our opinion less than six battalions will
not answer the purpose.) But as we do not conceive
an\- of these men can be recruited in Georgia, we would
apprehend it full as eligible (if that can be done) to order
some of the regiments already raised to march thither.
And. further, that the four troops of horse already
raised be augmented to a regiment and put upon the
Continental Establishment. Part of these battalions and
troops may be so stationed as to serve equally for the
protection of Georgia and South Carolina against the
Indians, and above all may entirely shut up the communi
cation between them and our enemies to the southward,

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which, in our opinion will be the most effectual means
of preventing an Indian war.

2d. That the sum of £ - sterling be granted by

the General Congress for building fortifications and
guard boats in the Province of Georgia. The reason
why we conceive this ought to be a general charge, is
because it is evident the same will serve against attacks
from the south and for cutting off the communication
between East and West Florida and the Indians, upon
which the peace of the back inhabitants of Georgia,
South Carolina, North Carolina and Virginia depends.
Besides, it seems to be a part of the plan of Administra
tion to throw forces into the Indian country, where they
expect to be joined by a considerable number of the
savages, and in this event there is no Province or place
thro' which they could so conveniently pass as thro'
Georgia.

3d. It is a fixed principle with the Indians to be paid
for their good offices, and in this controversy we con
ceive they will expect to be well paid, even for neutrality.
The articles they prefer will doubtless be ammunition
and clothing, but these we have it it not in our power to
give them. We would then propose cattle as a substitute,
and are inclined to think, if the communication between
them and our enemies were cut off, they would soon be
brought to be well satisfied with a present of this kind.
It is, therefore, submitted to the General Congress whether
it would not be worth while to give direction that

head of cattle be purchased and distributed

among the Indians by the Commissioners. We are of
opinion this step would answer many valuable purposes,
and would have a tendency not only of attaching them to
our interest from gratitude, but would also be a means
of civilizing them, and by fixing the idea of property
would keep them honest and peaceable with us for fear
of reprisals.

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At a meeting of the Council, July 7th, 1776.
Present :

His Excellency the Prest. Wm. LeConte.

Archibald Bulloch. John Wereat.

John Bohun Girardeau. Benjamin Andrew.

Jonn. Bryan. Jonathan Cochrane.
Daniel Roberts.

His Excellency the President, laid before the Board
several letters and affidavits received per express from
Augusta, containing a most alarming account of the In
dians, breaking out, killing some carrying others off
as prisoners; upon mature consideration thereon, it was
agreed, that his Excellency should issue his orders to the
several field officers throughout the Province to hold
themselves in readiness to march where the service
might require, and to write to Col. Rae and Capt. Mar-
bury.

His Excellency laid before the Board a receipt of ten
pounds, being cash he had paid to Mr. Edgcombe.

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At a meeting of the Council, July 8th, 1776.
Present :

His Excellency the Prest. Jonn. Cochrane.

John Bohun Girardeau. Willm. LeConte.

Jonathan Bryan. Benjamin Andrew.

Daniel Roberts. John Wereat.

His Excellency laid before the Board sundry dis
patches from Col. Rae, and Capt. Marbury, which being
considered, ordered, that a letter be sent to Col. Rae to
inform him that a bench warrant is out against Col.
George Wells, which if he does not pay obedience to, he
must support the same with a draught from his Regi
ment and that the Committee of which he is chairman is
to be considered as the only Committee of that District,
that a letter be also wrote to Sherwood Bugg, chairman
of the pretended Committee forbidding him to assume the
powers of a committee, etc.

The inhabitants of Queensborough presented a peti
tion to the Board for a supply of ammunition.

ORDERED That fifty pounds weight gunpowder and
one hundred weight lead be allowed to them accordingly.

ORDERED, also two hundred \veight gun powder and
five hundred weight lead be delivered to Col. Rae for
the District of Augusta, etc.

Mr. William Belcher waited on the Board and quali
fied as Justice of the Peace for the Parish of Saint
Philip, and also took the test appointed for all the male
inhabitants of this Province.

He also informed the Board of sundry dangerous

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practices of William Love and Charles Hall of St.
Philip's Parish.

ORDERED, that his Excellency do issue orders to ap
prehend the said William Love and Charles Hall, and
that Col. Mclntosh be requested to send a detachment
from the Battalion for that purpose.

That orders issue to take the arms at Mr. Montague's
and Mr. Harris's, and also the swivels on board the brig
at Sapalo River and two two pounders at Mr. Baillies.

It was agreed to issue the following order to Quintin
Pooler.

GEORGIA:

By His Excellency Archd. Bullock, Esqr., Etc.
To Quintin Pooler of Savannah, Esqr.

You are hereby required and commanded to yield and
deliver up to Thomas Burton, Esquire, of the Parish of
St. George, all and singular the negroes, which you shall
have in your possession, belonging to the estate of Wil
liam McDaniel late of the same place, planter, deceased,
or which were in his possession at the time of his death,
and have been since taken into your custody, particularly
certain negro slaves, which you lately took into your
custody under claim of a certain deed. The said Thomas
Burton being appointed Executor for the time, and until
it shall appear who is entitled to the administration of
the estate of the said deceased — hereof fail not. Given
under my hand, etc.

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PROVINCE OF GEORGIA:

By His Hxcellency Archd. Bulloch, Esqr., Etc., Etc.

To Thomas Burton, of Saint George's Parish, in the
Province Aforesaid, Esqr.

WHEREAS, William McDaniel, late of the same Parish
and Province, planter, deceased, was in his life time,
and at the time of his death, as it has been represented
unto us, possessed of divers negroes and other personal
estate to a considerable amount. And, whereas, in con
sequence of the late distracted situation of this Province
the Courts of Ordinary, as well as all other Courts were
entirely shut, by reason whereof, no will could be proved,
or letters of administration of the said estate granted
to any person whatsoever ; and, whereas, it has been sug
gested unto us, that the estate of the said deceased hath
been much injured and some parts thereof carried away
from the plantation of the said deceased, whereby those
entitled thereto may be considerable losers. Wherefore
I have thought proper, by and with the advice and con
sent of the honorable the Council of Safety, to appoint
you, and you are hereby appointed Executor for the time
of the aforesaid estate. And you are directed to collect
and gather together all and singular the personal estate
of the said deceased, and to keep the same in and upon
the plantation of the said deceased in the best order and
condition and to take care that no damage happen there
to. And all persons whatsoever are hereby required
to yield and deliver up to you whatever part of the said
estate they shall have in their hands, for all which, this
shall be your warrant. This appointment to continue
until my further order.

Given under my hand and seal at Savannah, this eighth
day of July, one thousand seven hundred and seventy
six.

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At a meeting of the Council, July gt\\, 17/6.
Present :

His Excellency the Prest. John Wereat.

John Bohun Girardeau. Wm. LeConte.

Benj. Andrew. Jonathan Cochrane.

John Houstoun. Dan'l Roberts.

His Excellency laid before the Board sundry letters
from Col. Candler and others respecting the Indians.
Ordered, that similar orders be sent to Col. Candler as
was sent to Col. Rae yesterday.

The district of Little Ogechee made a return of officers
that were elected the 8th inst, viz. : Stephen Dean,
Esqr., Captain; Charles Odingsell, First Lieutenant;
Benjamin Farley, Second Lieutenant ; and David Fox,
Third Lieutenant, and commissions were ordered for
them accordinglv.

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The following was received from the prisoners now in
confinement :

The gentlemen confined at Mr. Mossman's house by
order of your Excellency, having been informed that the
Congress has left it to you to grant them such allowance
as you may think sufficient for their support, request
that you will please to* take the same under consideration
and give your orders accordingly.

It was the opinion of the Council that the prisoners
should only be allowed the rations, as the Militia of ye
Province.

ORDERED, that fifty weight of gunpowder and one
hundred weight of lead be delivered to Col. Candler,
for the use of the back settlements.

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Capt. James McFarland qualified as Justice of the
Peace for the District of Wrightsborough.

Barnard Herd, Esqr., qualified for the Middle Dis
trict, Ceded Lands.

At a meeting of the Council, July IIth 1776.

Present :

His Excellency Archd. Bulloch.
John Wereat. Benjn. Andrew.

Wm, LeConte. Dan'l Roberts.

Jonathan Cochrane. John Bohun Girardeau.

Jonathan Bryan.

ORDERED, that Mr. Kelly's bill be paid, amounting to
one pound, three shillings and six pence, for bringing a
deserter to Savannah, lately from Saint Augustine, and
also fourteen shillings expended during his stay in Sa
vannah.

Mr. Kelly desired of the Board to have leave to make
reprisals on the Province of East Florida, for depreda
tions they have made on this Colony, and to have a com
mission for that purpose, which was granted him.

ORDERED, that commissions be issued for Joseph Far
ley, Junr., as Second Lieutenant, and James Alexander,
Third Lieutenant of the volunteer company of Militia
commanded by Capt. John Martin.

Capt. Lee waited on the Board and made application
for a boat which was granted him; also, it was agreed
that he should enlist men, giving them: the same bounty
as he was heretofore allowed, provided they enlisted for
the space o<f eighteen months.

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That a line be wrote to Mr. James Butler, informing
that he may repair the Ogeechee causeway, and that it
will be allowed in ye public work.

That an order be issued to Mr. Shem Butler to permit
Mr. Croker to have the use of his late father's house, &c.

ORDERED, that Mr. Wright do deliver to Mr. Jonathan
Bryan one dozen Romal handkerchiefs for Indians, and
that Mr. Martin do also deliver fifty weight of bullets,
etc.

His Excellency the President laid before the Board a
letter from Mr. James Robertson respecting his con
finement. Ordered, that the commanding officer of the
guard be directed to give him his enlargement.

Samuel Livingston laid before the Board an account,
amounting to four pounds, sixteen shillings, which was
ordered payment.

Mr. Thomas Johnston presented a petition to the
Board, which being read and considered, ordered, that
Mr. Johnston remain as a prisoner at Mr. Mossman's,
where he now is.

Mr. John Inglis' letter being considered, it was agreed
that orders should be issued for his enlargement, and
also for the enlargement of Benjamin Wilson.

His Excellency the President laid before the Board
sundry letters, and a petition from Sherwood Bugg, as
Chairman of Committee at Augusta, which being read
and considered, it was the opinion of the Board that they
could have nothing to do with Sherwood Bugg, as
Chairman, and therefore laid aside the petition, &c.

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At a meeting of the Council, July i6th, 17/6.
Present :

His Excellency Archd. Bulloch.
Jonathan Cochrane. Wm. LeConte.

Jonathan Bryan. John Houstoun.

John Girardeau. Daniel Roberts.

Adam Fowler Brisbane.

His Excellency proposed to the Board the purchase
of some indigo from Mr. Lavien, for the purpose of
procuring arms and ammunition on the risque of the
Province, and that it should be paid for in Carolina or
Continental currency, which was agreed to.

Mr. Houston represented some matters to the Board
respecting Mr. Shem Butler and Mrs. Croker, which
being considered, it was ordered that Mrs. Croker do
attend the Board on Friday morning next.

Mr. George Baillie presented a petition to the Board
requesting that he might be indulged so as to be removed
from Mr. Mossman's house to his own, as it can make
no material difference, if he is confined therein, which
was granted him.

ORDERED, that his Excellency the President, Mr.
Cochrane and Mr. Girardeau be a secret committee for
the purpose of bringing arms and ammunition into the
Province on the risque of the public.

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At a meeting of the Council, July iQth, 17/6.

Present :

His Excellency the Prest. Daniel Roberts.

John Bohun Girardeau. John Houstoun.

Adam Fowler Brisbane. Benjamin Andrew.

Jonathan Bryan. Willm. LeConte.

Thomas Ross, Esqr., waited on the Board and quali
fied as Justice of the Peace for the Parish of Christ
Church.

The Board being informed that Mr. Quintin Pooler
refused to obey their orders by keeping in his possession
the negroes that lately belonged to Mr. Willm. Mc-
Daniel, deceased; it was their opinion that orders do
issue to apprehend and take into safe custody the said
Quintin Pooler.

That the officers taken prisoners be not permitted
to go at large on their parole, but that a genteel lodging-
be provided for them with a guard.

Mr. Shem Butler and Mrs. Croker waited on the
Board and made representation of their affair, which
being considered it was the opinion of the Board, that
Mrs. Croker be permitted to reside at Rosedew Planta
tion, but that she do not tamper with the negroes and
have nothing to do with plantation business and give
security to that purpose, and that James Butler and Dr.
Younge be not admitted on the plantation.

ORDERED that the following gentlemen, viz. : Nathl.
Adams, George Houstoun, Doctor Jones, David Fisher,
and John Houstoun, be appointed Commissioners of the

164 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

White Bluff Road, and that they be served with a copy
of this order.

Mr. William O'Brien waited on the Board, and quali
fied as Justice of the Peace for the Parish of Christ
Church. Also William Stephens, Esqr., qualified as Jus
tice of the Quorum.

GEORGIA :

By His Excellency Archibald Bullock, Esqr., President
and Commander in Chief of the said Province, in
Council.

To the Provost Marshal of the said Province, Greeting:

WHEREAS,, Quintin Pooler of Savannah, in the said
Province, gentleman, hath not only refused to comply
with the orders issued from this Board, sitting and act
ing agreeable to the Constitution of the said Province;
but hath also been guilty of a contempt of the said Board.

These are therefore to command and require you the
said Province Marshal without delay to take into your
custody the body of the said Quintin Pooler, and him
safely detain in close confinement, until he shall be there
from discharged by orders issued from me in Council.
For which this shall be your warrant.

Given under my hand and seal in Council, this nine
teenth day of July, 1776.

(Signed) ARCH. BULLOCH.
GEORGIA :
By His Excellency, Etc.
To the Provost Marshal, Etc.

WHEREAS, Quintin Pooler of Savannah, in the said

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Province, Gentleman, hath taken into his possession and
secreted sundry negroes belonging to the estate of Wil
liam McDaniel, deceased. These are therefore to com
mand and require you the said Provost Marshal to make
diligent search after the said negroes, and to take the
same and deliver them into the hands of Mr. Thomas
Burton of the Parish of Saint George; for which this
shall be your warrant.

Given under my hand and seal, etc.

(Signed) ARCHD. BULLOCK.

At a meeting of the Council, July 25th, 1776.
Present :

His Excellency the Prest. Nathan Brownson.

Adam Fowler Brisbane. Jonathan Bryan.

John Bohun Girardeau. Daniel Roberts.

Benjamin Andrew. Wm. LeConte.

Mr. Robert Hamilton waited on the Board and repre
sented sundry matters respecting the Town and District
of Augusta, and requested liberty for the said Town and
District to elect a new Parochial Committee; when it
was the opinion of the Board, that all the Parishes and
Districts within this Province be ordered, at the same
time they choose Delegates, to elect new Parochial Com
mittees : He also requested an order that the Com
mander of the Militia should take possession of Mr.
Gordon's Fort, and also make representation of some
goods in possession of Capt. Manson, which being con
sidered, it was thought proper to- defer the same till fur
ther inquiry.

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Mr. Robert Hamilton qualified as Justice of the Peace
for the Parish of Saint Paul.

Capt. Daniel Roberts laid before the Board sundry ac
counts against the public of Capt. Nathl. Saxton, which,
being examined, were ordered payment.

It was the opinion of the Board that orders should be
immediately issued to take into possession all the goods
that may be found secreted on Savannah River, or in any
stores whatever in the Province.

Mr. Thomas Burton presented a petition to the Board,
and Col. Stirk being sent for in consequence thereof,
exculpated himself from some charges against him. It
was ordered that Col. Stirk do assist the Provost Marshal
in taking Ouintin Pooler and the negroes belonging to
the estate of Mr. McDaniel.

Nathan Brownson, Esqr., qualified as Justice of the
Quorum for the Province of Georgia.

Mr. John Houstoun and Mr. William Stephens at
tended on the Board as counsel concerned for Mr. Shem
Butler and James Butler, and oath of James Hamilton
Casey, being read and the substance thereof debated, it
was the opinion of the Board that a warrant do issue to
take into custody the bodies of James Butler and Doctor
Charles Yonge, and to bring them before this Board.

ORDERED,, that James Maxwell, David Huguine, James
Butler, James Mackay, John Hern, Benjamin Stiles and
Adam Fowler Brisbine be Commissioners of the Road
for the Parish of Saint Philip.

Mrs. Wereat presented a petition to the Board inform
ing of an advertisement for the sale of the plantation
and negroes belonging to James Hume, Esqr., and that

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the said James Hume was greatly indebted to her hus
band, and therefore requests that the sale might be
stopped. Ordered, that the said sale be stopped, and all
others of the like kind.

At a meeting of the Council, July 26th, i//6.
Present :

His Excellency the Prest. Nathan Bro\ynson.

John Bohun Girardeau. Willm. LeConte.

John Houstoun. Daniel Roberts.

Benjamin Andrew. Jonn. Bryan.

ORDERED, that William O'Brien and Thomas Ross,
Esqrs., do take a Constable or Constables with them and
proceed 'round the Town of Savannah and tender the
Test, ordered by our Provincial Congress, to all the
male inhabitants of the said Town, and those who refuse
to take the said Test, they are immediately to commit to
safe custody, agreeable to the Resolve of Congress.

ORDERED, that Air. \Vm. LeConte and Mr. Jonathan
Bryan be a committee to raise the scout boat.

Philip Dell presented a petition to the Board request
ing leave to go to Saint Augustine in order to seek after
his son, supposed to be in confinement there. Ordered,
that Philip Dell have permission accordingly.

Mr. John Stewart qualified as Justice of the Peace for
the Parish of Saint Paul.

Mr. William Council was appointed Adjutant of the
Battalion of Militia commanded by Col. Jones.

168 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

At a meeting of the Council, Savannah, July 3<Dth,
1776.

Present :

His Excellency the Prest. William LeConte.

John Bohun Girardeau. John Houstoun.

John Adam Treutlen. Benjamin Andrew.

Daniel Roberts. Samuel Saltus.

ORDERED, that commissions do issue for Daniel Bun-
nell, as Captain, Robert Dixon, First Lieutenant, and
Thomas Mills, second Lieutenant of a Company of Mili
tia in the Upper District of Saint Matthew's Parish, 2d
Battalion, ist Regiment.

ORDERED, that Col. Mclntosh, Col. Scriven, Capt.
Baker and Capt. Woodruffe be recommended to go as
volunteers on an expedition to East Florida, and that
his Excellency do issue orders accordingly.

Messrs. James Butler and Charles Younge presented a
petition to the Board requesting to be heard by the Board,
by themselves or their counsel.

James Whitefield, Esqr., was appointed Register of
Probate.

WHEREAS, it has been represented to this Board that
the public papers belonging to the Secretary's office at
Ebenezer may receive damage ; it is, therefore, thought
necessary to depute James Whitefield, Esqr., to bring the
same to Savannah, and that he take them in charge, giv
ing any person leave to examine the said papers, they
paying such fees as were usually paid to the Secretary
of the Province.

Dr. James Dunwoodie was chosen member of this

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Board in the room of John Wereat, Esqr., who is ab
sent.

Mr. Douglass waited on the Board and represented
that Capt. \Vm. Bryan had taken, among the things at
his plantation, some nails, hoes, &c. Ordered, that such
necessaries as shall appear to be designed for Mr. Doug
lass' private use, be re-delivered to him.

ORDERED, that a commission do issue for Mr. John
Stewart, as Lieutenant of the Troop of Horse com
manded by Capt. Hovenden.

Mr. Andrew requested for an order of one hundred
pounds, in part of an account, for erecting a battery in
the Town of Sunbury, which was granted.

At a meeting of the Council, July 3ist, 1776.
Present :

His Excellency the Prest. Samuel Saltus.

Adam Fowler Brisbane. Daniel Roberts.

John Bohun Girardeau. William LeConte.

Benjamin Andrew. John Houstoun.

Mr. Hazard waited on the Board and made claim to a
negro wench and two children lately taken near Wright's

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Fort, which being considered, it was the opinion of the
Board that she and her children could not be sold, but
that the other negroes taken with her should be sold at
vendue by Mr. Jacobs.

Mr. Bryan laid an account before the Board for hire
of negroes, &c., which was ordered payment.

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Sundry accounts were also ordered payment, being-
wages for the boat of observation.

At a meeting of the Council, August ist, 1776.
Present :

His Excellency the Prest. John Houstoun.

Adam Fowler Brisbane. Daniel Roberts.

John Bohun Girardeau. Samuel Saltus.

Benjamin Andrew. Colonel Scriven.
William LeConte.

His Excellency the President laid before the Board
his account current with the public, which being exam
ined, it appeared that the sum of thirteen pounds four
teen shillings and seven pence was the balance due to His
Excellency.

Received August ist, 1776, of His Excellency, Archi
bald Bulloch, Esquire, the sum of two thousand six
hundred and twenty-eight pounds fourteen shillings and
seven pence in full of all demands due to the public. By
order of the Council.

EDWD. LANGWORTHY, Secretary.

WHEREAS,, It appears by the estimate of Congress,
that the sum of one thousand pounds was provided in
order to enable His Excellency the President and Coun
cil to stop up the back river ; and, whereas, upon enquiry
it is found that the said service is impracticable ; and it
having been represented to Council, that the Congress
have not voted a sum sufficient for the contingent ex
penses of government. The Council, therefore, resolve

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that the Treasurers do pay out of the said sum of one
thousand pounds provided for the stoppage of the back
river, any sums of money for the public service that may
be ordered by His Excellency the President in Council,
and that we will indemnify the Treasurers for so doing.
Mr. Strothers applied for leave to pass through the
Creek Nation in order to go to the Mississippi, promis
ing to use his influence with the Creeks, and to give
security of his return ; it was the opinion of the Board
that he be permitted agreeable to his request.

Mr. James Butler and Doctor Charles Younge appeared
before this Board with their counsel, in order to clear
themselves of an accusation, respecting the contempt
thereof, and being heard, it was the opinion of the Board,
they should be dismissed, first taking the following oath :

GEORGIA— ss. :

James Butler and Charles Younge of the Province
aforesaid, made oath and say that they have not, nor
hath either of them said, or done anything mentioned in
the affidavit of James Hamilton Casey, and Shem But
ler, which they meant or intended as any contempt or
reflection, upon the proceedings of the President and
Council of this Province, and that they had no notice of
the orders of this Board, requiring them to keep away
from Rosedew Plantation.

(Signed) JAMES BUTLER.

CHARLES YOUNGE.

Mr. James Butler was forbid to go on Rosedew Planta
tion, and Dr. Charles Younge promised not to go, but
as a physician to the family, and then not to intermeddle
with the affairs of the plantation.

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James Whitefielcl, Esqr., waited on the Board and
qualified as Register of Probates, and also as Justice of
the Peace for the Parish of Christ Church.

Mr. James Robertson represented to the Board that
sundry household goods at Mr. Hume's plantation would
receive damage and be destroyed, and therefore requested
leave to sell the same. It was the opinion of the Board
that Mr. Robertson have permission to sell the said
goods, but to be accountable to this Board for the amount
thereof, if required hereafter.

SAVANNAH, Aug. ist, 1/76.

GENTLEMEN : — I herewith send you a copy of what
passed in Council this morning. There are notes to the
amount of sixteen hundred pounds that have been ex
pended mostly on account of the Battalion and Troops
of Horse. What monies are deficient to take up these
notes, you are to pay out of the thousand pounds, pro
vided for the stoppage of the back river, as expressed in
the copy I have now sent you, and the overplus is ap
propriated to contingent services.

I am, sir, yours etc,

EDWD. LANG WORTHY.

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At a meeting of the Council of Safety, Aug. 2d, 1776.
Present :

His Excellency the Prest. William LeConte.

John Bohun Girardeau. James Scriven.

Adam Fowler Brisbane. Daniel Roberts.

Benjn. Andrew. Samuel Saltus.

ORDERED, that the Light Infantry and Grenadier Com
pany be discharged from doing duty in the Town of
Savannah.

ORDERED, that the Treasurers do pay to Mrs. Frances
Brown, Sarah Kirk and Elizabeth Langford the sum of
five pounds each.

Jacob Jacobs presented an account to the Board, when
it was their opinion that he could not be paid his charge,
as Clerk of the Battalion.

His Excellency represented to the Board the great
want of guards on several rivers and inlets in this Prov
ince. Ordered, that Col. Mclntosh do send detachments
of his battalion to Ogeechee and Skidaway.

ORDERED,, that such merchants as have any goods still
remaining in store, be forthwith directed to dispose of
the same for the use of the public.

174 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

At a meeting of the Council of Safety, Aug. 8th, 1776.

Present :

His Excellency the Prest. Samuel Saltus.

John Bohun Girardeau. Daniel Roberts.

Adam Fowler Brisbane. Jonathan Bryan.

Benjamin Andrew. John Houstoun.

The President laid before the Board a letter from the
Honorable John Hancock, Esqr., together with a copy
of the Declaration of Independency, which being read it
was agreed that it be proclaimed in this Town on Satur
day next at eleven o'clock in the forenoon, and that or
ders do issue to the Commanding Officers of the Militia
to assemble the people accordingly.

Mr. Thomas Young presented a petition to the Board
setting forth that when he was last at Saint Augustine
he purchased a quantity of goods from one Archibald
Lundy and that he now stands actually engaged for the
payment of the said goods to the amount of upwards of
three thousand five hundred pounds sterling, etc.

GEORGIA :

To His Excellency Archibald Bullock, Esquire, Presi
dent, and to the Members of the Honbl. the Council
for the Province aforesaid.

The Memorial and Presentation of Thomas Young of
the said Province.

SHOWETH : — That your memorialist sometime ago
was applied to by a secret Committee appointed by your
Board to procure from the neighboring Province some
articles of clothing and other necessaries for the use of
the Battalion in this Province.

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That when your Memorialist went to Saint Augustine
for the said purpose, he discovered that one Archibald
Luncly had considerable stock of goods lying in this
Province, imported within the continental regulations,
but unknown to any but those concerned in the care of
said goods.

That the said Arch. Lundy was not disposed to retail
the said goods in this Province, under the present situa
tion of things, but seemed determined by some means or
other to sell them off by wholesale.

That your Memorialist conceive that such a stock of
goods would be of infinite service to the inhabitants of
this Province, and that in consequence of the present
urgent demand for goods, they would turn out to good
account to any person who should purchase them, and
therefore concluded a bargain with the said Arch. Lundy
for the whole of said goods.

That your Memorialist avers he did not know of the
said goods till after he went to Saint Augustine, and
that the bargain of agreement between him and Lundy
was fairly and bona-fide made. And that your Memo-
ralist now stands actually engaged for the payment of
the said goods to the amount of upwards of three thou
sand five hundred pounds sterling.

That your Memoralist begs leave to suggest that he
conceived the faith of the Province pledged to him and
all others, who should bring in for sale to this Province
any sort of goods not prohibited by the Association and
other resolve of Congress. And further that at this time
when we are striking out a new channel of Trade and our
distresses for goods already become great, he appre
hends every indulgence ought to be shown to the mer
chants and property in trade held the most sacred of all
property.

176 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

That your Memoralist now finds, that the said goods
are by order of your Honorable Board seized and taken
into custody.

That your Memoralist is led to believe this must have
been done under an idea that they were the goods of
Lundy, or one Taylor (who acted for Lundy), but this
he begs leave to assure Your Excellency is not the case
— he having as before set forth actually purchased them,
and the property vested in him.

That your Memoralist begs leave to assure Your Ex
cellency and Honors that he purchased the said goods
with a full intention of selling them in this Province,
and had no view of anything clandestine, or unbecoming
the merchant and fair dealer, and will now pledge him
self, that should the said goods be returned to him he
will dispose of them all within the Province, and will in
the first place let Your Excellency and Honors have
whatever necessaries may be thought wanting for the
public service.

Your Memoralist therefore, under the particular cir
cumstances of the case, and as it must appear that the
said order was founded upon a mistake, as to the prop
erty of the said goods, prays that there may be an order
from your Honorable Board for the redelivery to him of
all the said goods, wares and merchandise.

And your Memoralist, etc.

ORDERED, that the goods be still retained in possession
of the Commissary and sold by him to the people, and
that this Board will be answerable to Mr. Lundy for the
amount of the goods that come into their hands.

ORDERED, that the Declaration of Independency be

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read at the Assembly House, Liberty Pole and the Bat
tery.

ORDERED, that Mr. Thomas Reid be directed to bring
his goods to Savannah and to sell them to the inhabi
tants.

Mrs. Ann Cuthbert presented a petition to the Board,
setting forth, that very lately some person, or persons,
without leave of your petitioner, have taken upon them
to cut a new road to Newington, in order to make that
road some\vhat shorter than the eld road, though it will
be very prejudicial to the owners of the forty-five acre
lots in general and particularly so to your petitioner, as
it runs through the best of her land ; that the old road
runs on the line of the said lots and consequently doth
very little damage.

ORDERED, that Messrs. William Gibbons, Noble Wimb.
Jones, Edward Telfair and John Joachim Zubly be sum
moned to attend this Board on Monday morning next,
in order to explain the premises of the above petition.

ORDERED, that no person in the Town and District of
Savannah, shall be permitted to retail spirituous Liquors
without a proper license.

ORDERED, that a proclamation do issue forbidding all
persons from selling any goods, etc., on the Sabbath day,
and that the Magistrates do use their utmost endeavors
to prevent all irregularities and profaneness.

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178 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

At a meeting of the Council, Aug. Qth, 1776.
Present :

His Excellency the Prest. Daniel Roberts.

Adam Fowler Brisbane. John Houstoun.

John Girardeau. Samuel Saltus.

Benjamin Andrew. Jonathan Bryan.

Thomas Young, Esqr., waited on the Board and re
quested that his affairs respecting the goods of Mr.
Archibald Lundy might be reconsidered, when it was
the determination of the Board, that it be referred to the
consideration of the next Congress.

Capt. Roberts, Messrs. Girardeau and Saltus being ap
pointed a Committee to agree with some gentlemen about
loading, etc., some vessels for the service of the public,
reported that they had, agreeable to orders, met at Mr.
Lavien's; that they agreed with Mr. Philip Moore on
the following terms, viz. : That he should have one-half
penny per pound freight on Indigo and ten pounds per
cent commissions for buying and selling. That the pub
lic should guarantee the vessel against the weather, in
proportion to what they ventured in her, and as Mr.
Moore's vessel runs no risque, the Committee recom
mended that two thousand pounds be ventured in her,
which was agreed to. They also report that Mr. Ratoone
offers his vessel to the public; that she is upwards of
seventy ton burden, well built, rigged and fit for sea, and
that he asks for her no more than two hundred and sixty
five pounds.

They also recommended that this vessel be purchased
and that Commissioners be appointed to procure a load
of rice for her, and send her off — and that Messrs,

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Thomas Maxwell, Senr., John Winn, Senr., and John
Kell be Commissioners for that purpose — which being
considered, it met with the approbation of the Board.

Orders were issued that Mr. Edward Telfair have
permission and authority to take any quantity of pitch
pine plank, that may be upon Mr. Rae's wharf, or else
where in and about Savannah, for the purpose of build
ing a galley, and that he be obliged to take a sworn
measurer to take an account of it previous to a removal,
and pay the proprietors, at the rates and prices of such
plant, heretofore used for the public service.

It was the determination of the Board, that the goods
belonging to Archibald Lundy and claimed by Mr. Thos.
Young, be sold by the Commissary at £75 per cent.

At a meeting of the Council, igth August, 17/6.
Present :

Adam Fowler Brisbane. Daniel Roberts.

John Adam Treutlen. Benjamin Andrew.

Jonathan Cochrane. Saml- Salttis.

John Houstoun. Wm. LeConte.

Jonathan Bryan. Nathan Brownson.

Gen. Lee waited on the Board and proposed the fol
lowing Question for consideration :

First — Whether as the Post on St. Mary's is now
abandoned and the whole country between that river and
Saint John's broke up, and as there is no possibility of
transporting cannon, ammunition, provisions, or collect-

180 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

ing a sufficient number of men for the Siege and reduc
tion of Augustine, an irruption into East Florida can be
productive of so important advantages to the general
cause, or to this State of Georgia in particular, as to
compensate for the trouble and expense ; and what these
advantages are?

What are the means of certainly supplying the troops
with grain and meat? How their baggage is to be trans
ported. Whether it can be safely transported by water?

If it cannot, whether wagons can pass, if the road is
practicable only to horses, how pack saddles are to be
provided ?

ORDERED, that Messrs. Jonathan Bryan and Nathan
Brownson be a Committee to answer the questions pro
posed by Gen. Lee.

SIR : — The Council having taken into consideration
your Excellency's questions, this day laid before them,
are clearly of the opinion that an irruption into the Prov
ince of East Florida will be attended with the most salu
tary consequences to this Province and, of course, render
service to the whole Continent. The reasons which
weigh with them are as follows:

First — That they conceive the reduction of St. Augus
tine to be a very considerable object with the Continent
in general, but to this Province in particular.

Second — They are led to hope that if the whole coun
try around is ravaged, the cattle on the east side of Saint
John's drove off and the inhabitants obliged to evacuate
their plantations and fly into the Castle, the scarcity of
provisions and the want of fresh supplies of many arti
cles from the country will of itself oblige the Garrison
to submit to our arms.

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Third — That supposing this last consequence not to
happen, yet the driving our enemies so far from our
country will be of infinite advantage — in this that it will
be a means of preventing the loss of negroes, either by
desertion or otherwise by land.

Fourth — That the country b.eing in our possession
will, not only from principles of dread, attach the Indians
to our interest, but will also put it in our power to pre
vent our enemies from holding any intercourse with these
savages, or having any opportunity to tamper with them,
or supply or stir them up against us. And we conceive
that after the Province shall be so broke up a single
Troop of Horse appointed to range on the west side of
the River St. John will be quite sufficient to cut off all
communication between the Creek Indians and the peo
ple of East Florida.

Fifth — By carrying distress and war into the country,
we incline to think the inhabitants of East Florida will
find themselves so much engaged at home, as not to be
able to fit out Privateers against this Province, till we
are better prepared for them. This Province has been
harassed and they expect to be much more so with Priva
teers in case some vigorous blow is not struck against
East Florida, and we are inclined to think the plunder
which will fall into the hands of the soldiers will well
compensate them for the difficulty and toil attending their
march.

As to the other questions, viz :

What are the means of certainly supplying the Troops
with grain and meat, how is the baggage to be trans
ported, and whether can it be transported safely by water?
\Ye are of the opinion that while the troops remain on
this side of the River Alatamaha, there will be no oc-

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casion to do more than send a commissary ahead to pro
vide rice and beef at different stages, as the troops ad-,
vance. The country all along abounding with provis
ions, after they pass this river, we think it will be neces
sary to send a quantity of rice in boats with directions
to meet the troops at different places, and we are in
formed that these boats may go with great safety, there
being an excellent inland passage to a place called Pical-
latto Creek within twenty miles of Saint Augustine. We
imagine these boats must be procured in or about Sa
vannah, or Sunbury, and therefore we would recom
mend that the troops send such of their baggage as they
can't conveniently carry in their boats. Some horses
will certainly be necessary for the troops upon their
march, which together with pack saddles we think may
be got in this place. Wagons will be useless as they can
not proceed above fifty miles from this town.

ORDERED, that the sum of thirty pounds be advanced
to Mr. John Sutcliffe for the use of Gen. Lee.

Doctor Dunwody took his seat, as a member of this
Board, and qualified as a Justice of the Quorum for the
Province.

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At a meeting of the Council, August 2Oth, 1/76.

Present :

Adam Fowler Brisbane. Nathan Brownson.

John Adam Treutlen. John Dunwody.

John Houstoun. Samuel Saltus.

John Girardeau. Jonathan Bryan.

Daniel Roberts. William LeConte.
Benjamin Andrew.

The Board being of opinion, that the intended expedi
tion against the Province of East Florida is a measure
in which the welfare of this Province is particularly in
terested, and that if the same is successful, it cannot but
produce the most happy effects to the inhabitants of
Georgia.

RESOLVED, That this Board will give all assistance
in their power to forward the said Expedition, as the
same shall be directed by his Excellency General Lee,
and that a committee be appointed to wait upon the said
General Lee and know of him what will be requisite for
the said expedition, which, this Province can afford, and
to assure him of our hearty and ready disposition to
join and concur with him in all matters which may have
a tendency to reduce the said Province of East Florida,
or promote an irruption into the same, and that Messrs.
Jonathan Bryan and Cochrane be that Committee.

ORDERED, that Capt. Sam'l Miller do have a piece of
sail duck No. 8 delivered to him, he paying for the
same.

It being suggested that a number of boats will be
wranted -for transporting the troops and their baggage,
in case they should proceed to the Southward, and that

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some boats proper for that service were just going- away
from this port ;

ORDERED, that Capt. Thomas Morris be directed and
have full power to go to the river side in and about Sa
vannah or elsewhere, and there view and inquire about
all such boats as he apprehends will be fit for the said
service, and that he do lay a restraint in nature of an em
bargo upon the same. And in case he apprehends there
is danger of their being carried away, that he take the
same into his possession, and apply for a guard from
Capt. Woodruffe to take care of the same. This to con
tinue until the further order of this Board.

Estis, Esqr., waited on the Board and made applica
tion for the loan of two thousand pounds to pay off some
of the Continental troops belonging to Col. Kennon.
which being considered it was the opinion of the Board
that the application ought to be made thro' his Excel
lency the General, or at least ought to be backed with a
certificate from him.

ORDERED, that Doctor Brownson and Jonathan Coch-
rane be a Committee to take proper security from Capt.
Samuel Miller for the two thousand pounds allowed by
the public for the purpose of fitting out an armed vessel.

Edwd. Telfair, Esqr., made application for a guard
over the row gallies now building; also, that his negro

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pilots be taken up and confined, and that some guard
boat be stationed in Savannah River to prevent negroes
from going down to Cockspur. It was the opinion of
the Board that a guard be ordered to take care of the
gallies, and also that it be recommended to Mr. Telfair
to cause all the negro pilots belonging to him to be con
fined in some secure place, and that Capt. Woodruffe and

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the marines under his command be ordered to do duty
every night in Savannah River till further orders.

Henry Sharp presented a petition to the Board, which
being considered, it was agreed that the said Henry
Sharp should be discharged from confinement, he first
giving approved security for his appearance.

Application being made for two four-pounders to be
sent to Ogeechee River ;

ORDERED, that two four-pounders be delivered to the
commanding officer of the Militia of the Lower District
of Saint Philip's Parish.

At a meeting of the Council, Aug. 22d, 1/76.
Present :

His Excellency the Prest. Jonathan Bryan.

John Adam Treutlen. John Girardeau.

Nathan Brownson. Sam'l Saltus.

Benjamin Andrew. John Dunwody.
Jonathan Cochrane.

ORDERED, that Col. Scriven be directed to apprehend
and send to Savannah Messrs. Spalding and Porteous.

Capt. Leonard Marbury made application to the Board
for leave to go with a detachment of Militia against some
of the Cherokee towns. It was the opinion of the Board
that orders be given to him accordingly.

ORDERED, that Capt. Thomas Morris do fit up, with

186 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

all possible expedition, the row boats, and to get as many
carpenters as he can procure for this purpose.

Capt. Harvey having made information that sundry
persons in the Back Settlements are about to leave the
Province, and to take their property with them ; it was
the opinion of the Board that the commanding officers
of the Militia be directed to stop and secure the property
of such persons as are about to depart the Province,
&c., &c.

ORDERED that commissions do issue for Andrew John
ston, as Captain, James Martin and Alexander Boys,
Lieutenants, of a Company of Militia in the District of
Queensborough.

Also, for John McCandlas, as Captain, John Clements
and John Patterson, Lieutenants, of a Company of Mili
tia, as above.

Likewise for William Tulley, as Captain, David Mer-
rine and Drurey Roberts, Lieutenants, as above.

And lastly, for Tuberfield Thomas, as First Lieuten
ant, and John Twittee, Second Lieutenant, of a Company
of Militia commanded by Capt. Charles Harvey.

It was agreed by the Board that the corn flour now in
Savannah River should be purchased by the public, at
ten shillings per hundred.

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At a meeting of the Council, Aug. 23d, 1776.

Present :

His Excellency Archd. Bulloch.
John Bohun Girardeau. Samuel Saltus.
John Adam Treutlen. Nathan Brownson.

Jonathan Bryan. Jonathan Cochrane.

John Dunwody. Benjamin Andrew.

Mr. Philip Moore laid before the Board an account of
Mr. Andrew Lord, which was ordered to be deferred to
the consideration of the next Congress.

James Butler, Esqr., presented a petition to the Board,
which being read it was ordered to be taken into con
sideration on Tuesday morning next, and that the parties
concerned in the said petition be summoned to attend the
Board.

Capt. Hovenden having made a charge against Lieu
tenant Pugh of disobedience to orders, it was the opinion
of the Board that Lieutenant Pugh do lose his commis
sion, and also forfeit what wages may be due to him.

General Lee sent the following to his Excellency the
President :

SIR: — I desire you'll furnish Mr. John Estis with
eleven thousand one hundred and thirty pounds South
Carolina currency, and take his draft for the same on
Col. William Kannon.

I am, Sir, your most obt. & very humble servant,

(Signed) CHARLES LEE, Major General.
Savannah, Aug. 22d, 1776.

To his Excellency the President.

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His Excellency the President delivered the following
order to Mr. John Estis :

SAVANNAH, Aug. 230!, 1776.

GENTLEMEN : — Pay to Mr. John Estis the sum of one
thousand, five hundred and ninety pounds, and take his
draft for the same on Col. William Kannon.

£1590. (Signed) ARCHD. BULLOCH.

To the Treasurers.

That his Excellency Archibald Bulloch, Esqr., do issue
orders to Lieutenant John Hardy that he be directed to
procure immediately a boat and hands and proceed to
the southward to reconnoitre the sounds and inlets and
see whether there are any British Ships of War, or Pri
vateers on the coasts, and to make his report as soon as
possible.

It was the opinion of the Board that the public should
purchase two vessels from Capt. Samuel Miller for their
service.

ORDERED, that Thomas Maxwell, John Kell, Thomas
Peacock and John Winn, Senr., be a Committee for
loading and dispatching the vessels now in Sunbury pur
chased as above.

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In Council, August 24th, 17/6.
Present :

His Excellency the Prest. James Dunwody.

John Girardeau. Nathan Brownson.

John Adam Treutlen. Samuel Saltus.

Jonathan Cochrane. John Houstoun.

Col. Jones having sent down sundry affidavits against
Henry Sharp of Saint George's Parish, it was the opin
ion of the Board, that the said Henry Sharp should im
mediately be taken into custody, as being dangerous to
the peace and good government of this Province.

Gen. Lee sent the following card to his Excellency the
President.

Gen. Lee presents his compliments to his Excellency
the President, and acquaints him there are several wagon
ers who are willing to dispose of their wagons and teams
— they came with the South Carolina Troops and will
probably dispose of 'em to advantage.

Gen. Lee is very sensible, the savings to the public will
be great, and if the Province is not willing to keep 'em,
they may afterwards be transferred for the use of the
Continent in general. The bearer is one of these wagon
ers and is inclined to dispose of his team for five hundred
pounds south : currency.

It was the opinion of the Board that the above men
tioned wagons should be purchased for the public service.

Commissions were issued for William Evans and Ed
ward Adams as Lieutenants of the First Company of
Militia, commanded by Capt. John McLuer.

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August 28th, 1776.

Present :

His Excellency the Prest. John Houstoun.

Jno. Bohun Giradeau. James Dumvody.

James Scriven. Jonathan Cochrane.

Jonathan Bryan. Danl. Roberts.

Thomas Palmer attended on the Board, and being duly
sworn, said that he saw Mr. Moorecock, a brother in-
law to Doctor Jones, on board of Osborne at Cockspur.
That the people belonging to the ships of war were fre
quently on the Island of Little Tybee, when Mr. George
Barry was there; and that he sold them hogs, sheep,
etc., but had not seen them there since. That Osborne
had not forty men on board, and that Stewart, Phelps,
Watson and Oldhis were on board.

ORDERED, that Mr. Palmer be enlarged, he first giving
security to remain in the Town of Savannah, till further
orders.

Mr. George Baillie presented a petition to the Board,
respecting some negroes belonging to the estate of Clem
ent Martin deceased, which had been taken off the Island
of Cumberland by a detachment of Militia.

ORDERED, that it be referred to the Court of Admi
ralty and it was the opinion of the Board, that his Ex
cellency the President do issue a Proclamation, ordering
that all captures for the future be libelled in the said
Court.

Gen. Lee sent a letter to the Board respecting the re
moval of the stock from the Sea Islands, and also of
falling upon the most effectual means to secure and pre-

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vent the enemies of American Freedom from injuring
us, which being read and considered :

ORDERED, that Messrs. Daniel Roberts, Jonathan Coch-
rane and Jonathan Bryan be a Committee to wait upon
the General to confer upon the same.

Titus Holinger laid a certificate from Mr. Thomas
Morris, signifying that he had received a large deck boat
from the said Titus Holinger, which was valued at one
hundred and eighty pounds.

ORDERED, that Titus Holinger be paid the sum of one
hundred and sixty pounds for the said boat.

ORDERED, that the skins bought of Mr. Joseph Clay
be given as a present to the soldiery now in Savannah.

Mr. Jonathan Cochrane, from the Committee appoint
ed to consider of the best way and means of supplying
the Province with dry goods, &c., reported :

That it was the opinion of the Committee that Capt.
Bowen be furnished with letters of recommendation to
the Governor of Cape Francois, setting forth that he is
empowered by this Province to open a commercial corre
spondence with any capital merchants of his island, re
questing the said Governor's protection and advice in
accomplishing the same; also, to promise, in behalf of
this Province, the like protection and assistance to the
merchants in his Government that may send their vessels
to any of our ports ;

That answers be wrote to Messrs. Roux & Co., ac
knowledging the receipt of theirs, and that due attention
shall be paid to them ;

That Capt. Bowen be authorized to contract with any

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merchants at Hispaniola, or elsewhere, for armed vessels
to the amount £3,000, and to pledge the faith of the
Province for the same, the number and size your Com-
rrittee recommend to the consideration of the President
and Council;

That Capt. Bowen be directed to purchase arms, am
munition and other warlike stores to the amount £5,000,
and to contract for as much more as this Province may
require for its defence, and that he be empowered to
charter vessels sufficient to carry rice or other produce
to make good any engagements he may enter into in
consequence of the powrer vested in him, or to engage
rice, or other produce oi this Province, to be delivered
here at certain rates for purposes above mentioned, which
ever might seem most beneficial to this Province; and
to empower them to enlist men for the said service, giv
ing £ — - bounty and per month, and should he not

be able to procure such armed vessels, and find a prob
ability of success, to apply for a convoy, if he should
think it necessary ; and should he obtain either the armed
vessels or a convoy, to sell the pilot boat and lay out the
money as before mentioned ; and it is the opinion of your
Committee that the vessel purchased of Capt. Rattoon
be immediately loaded and sent off to Hispaniola, con
signed to Capt. Bowen, and the proceeds of her cargo to
be applied as before mentioned.

As the necessary articles for building and fitting out
vessels and gallies for the public service cannot be easily
got in the Province, your Committee think it necessary
that Capt. Bowen be directed to purchase such materials
as are immediately \vanted for the said purposes; also,
an assortment of medicines suitable to the disorders of
the climate.

Further, that Capt. Bowen be furnished with a copy

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of the Declaration of the Independent States of America,
and a proclamation from our President offering the
French subjects a free trade with us.

This report was agreed to.

At a meeting of the Council, 2Qth Aug., i//6.
Present :

His Excellency the Prest. James Scriven.

John Bohun Girardeau. John Houstoun.

Daniel Roberts. Jonathan Bryan.

Jonathan Cochrane. James Dunwody.

\YHEREAS, it appears to this Board absolutely neces
sary for the safety of this Province, that all the cattle
upon the islands should be either removed to the main
or destroyed ; therefore, it is recommended that the Com
missaries of the several battalions in this Province do
supply all the troops (except such as shall be stationed
in Savannah) with meat entirely from the islands; and
it is ordered that the owners of such cattle as are upon
the said Islands shall remove them to the main before
the first day of November next: otherwise they will be
destroyed at the loss of the owners.

WHEREAS, it has been discovered by sundry informa
tions that some perfidious persons, enemies to American
freedom, continue to maintain an intercourse with the
officers or commanders of the ships of war now stationed
at Cockspur;

AND WHEREAS, such intercourse may be attended with

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the most dangerous consequences to the peace and welfare
of the Independent States of America;

It is, therefore, resolved that from and after this day
there shall he no license or pass granted to any person
whatsoever, for the purpose of going down to the said
ships of war, except to those who are about to leave the
Province never to return ; and all persons who may be
detected in attempting to do the same clandestinely will
be punished according to the utmost rigour of the law.

ORDERED, that the sum of five pounds sterling be paid
to Peter Buckhalter, for his information respecting the
ships of war at Cockspur.

At a meeting of the Council, Aug. 3Oth, 17/6.
Present :

His Excellency the Prest. Daniel Roberts.

John Bohun Girardeau. John Houstoun.

James Dunwody. Jonathan Cochrane.
James Scriven.

Button Gwinnett, Esqr., waited on the Board and laid
before them the following letter from the Honorable
John Hancock, Esqr. :

PHILADELPHIA, July 24th, 1776.

GENTLEMEN : — The Congress being of opinion that
the service of the United States will be promoted by
taking into pay a number of troops, in the State of Geor
gia, who are to act either as infantry or light horse, as
occasion may require, have come to the enclosed Re-

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solves, which I do myself the honour of transmitting, in
obedience to their command.

In consideration that these troops will go thro' more
than ordinary duty, and be put to a greater expense than
others, the Congress have augmented their pay in propor
tion.

I have delivered blank commissions to the Delegates of
your State.

\Yith most hearty and sincere wishes for the prosperity
of the State of Georgia, I have the honour to be, with
great respect,

Genl., Yrs., &c.,

JNO. HANCOCK, President.
To the Honble. the Convention of the State of Georgia.

IN CONGRESS, July 24th, 1776.

RESOLVED, That the regiment of Rangers now in the
pay of the State of South Carolina be placed upon Con
tinental establishment, and that it consist of a Lieutenant
Colonel Commandant, a Major, ten Captains, twenty
Lieutenants, a Surgeon, a Pay Master, twenty Sergeants,
and five hundred privates.

That the pay of the Lieutenant Colonel Commandant
of Rangers be the same as a Colonel of Post; a Major
that of a Lieutenant Colonel ; a Captain that of a Major,
and the Lieutenants that of Captains, and Sergeants that
of Ensigns of foot of the Continental forces ; that the
Surgeon be allowed 33 1/3 dollars per month, the Pay
Master 26 2/3 and the privates 121/2 dollars per month
to provide themselves with horses, guns and provisions
.for themselves and horses.

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That the said Rangers be liable to act on horse back
or foot, as occasion may require.

That the like number of Rangers be raised in the
State of Georgia and put upon Continental establishment.

That these be entitled to the same pay and subject to
the same duties as the Carolina Rangers.

By order of the Congress,

JOHN HANCOCK, President.

IN CONGRESS, June 5th, 1776.

RESOLVED, That the pay of the Regimental Surgeons
be augmented to thirty-three dollars and one-third of a
dollar a month.

RESOLVED, That prisoners taken by Continental Arms
to be not exchanged by any other authority but the Con
tinental Congress.

July 5th.

The Committee appointed to consider the State of
Georgia brought in their report, which was taken into
consideration, thereupon ;

RESOLVED, That for the defense of the Colony of
Georgia, there be an addition o-f two Battalions, one of
them to consist of Riflemen, to be raised on the same
terms on which other Continental Battalions are now
ordered to be raised.

RESOLVED, That blank commissions for the field offi
cers be sent to the Convention of Georgia to be filled up
with the names of such persons as the said Convention
shall judge proper.

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RESOLVED, That it be recommended to the Assemblies,
Conventions, or Council of Safety, of the Colonies of
Virginia, North and South Carolina, to permit the raising
of troops for the purpose aforesaid within their respective
Colonies, and if requested to afford their advice and as
sistance, with regard to suitable persons in the said
Colonies for Captain and Subalterns, and that blank com
missions be delivered to the Delegates.

RESOLVED, That four gallies be built at the expense
of the United States, under the direction of the Conven
tion of Georgia, for the further defense of said Colony.
And;

WHEREAS, The Delegates of the said Colony of Geor
gia have represented to said Committee that it will be
necessary that two forts be erected in said Colony, the
one at Savannah and the other at Sunbury.

RESOLVED, That two Companies of Artillery be raised,
consisting of fifty men each, officers included, for the
purpose of garrisoning such forts, in case they shall be
erected at the expense of the said Colony, and that blank
Commissions be delivered to the Delegates for the offi
cers, to be fixed up by the Assembly or Convention of
said Colony.

That a Chaplain be appointed to each Regiment in the
Continental Army, and their allowance be increased to
thirty-three dollars and one-third of a dollar a month.

July 8th.

RESOLVED, That an order for sixty thousand dollars
be drawn on the Treasurers in favor of the Delegates of
Georgia, for the use of the Continental Battalions, the
Colony to be accountable.

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July 1 6th.

That there be appointed by the Commanding Officer
of each Regiment in the Continental Army, a Sergeant
Major, Quartermaster Sergeant, Drum Major and Fife
Major, who shall respectively hold no other appointment
but those before mentioned, and that their pay be one
dollar a month each more than that allowed to a Ser
geant, Drum or Fife in said Regiment.

That a Pay Master be appointed to each Regiment in
the Army of the United States, with a salary of twenty-
six dollars and two thirds of a dollar a month.

June 26th, 1776.

RESOLVED, That a bounty of ten dollars be given to
every non-commissioned officer and soldier who will en
list for the term of three years.

November 4th, 1775.

RESOLVED, That a ration consist of the following kind
and quantity of provisions, viz. :

One pound beef or three-quarter pound pork, or one
pound salt fish per day.

One pound bread or flour per day.

Three pints of pease or beans per week, or vegetables
equivalent at one dollar per bushel for pease or beans.

One pint of milk per diem, per man, or at the rate of
1-72 of a dollar.

One half pint of rice, or one pint of Indian meal, per
man per week.

One quart of spruce beer or cyder, per man per day,

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or three gallons molasses per company of 100 men per
week.

Three pound candles to 100 men per week, for guards.

Twenty four pounds soft or eight pounds hard soap
for 100 men per week.

Extract from the Minutes.

By order of the Congress,

CHARLES THOMPSON, JOHN HANCOCK,

Secretary. President.

His Excellency General Lee having represented that
it was necessary to enclose the public magazine;

ORDERED, that one hundred negroes be impressed for
that purpose.

John Griner, Thomas Lovett and Aaron Pickron laid
before the Board a certificate, by which it appeared that
since the sixteenth day of October, one thousand, seven
hundred and seventy-five, they have acted as Captain and
Lieutenants of a volunteer Company in the Upper Dis
trict of Halifax, St. George's Parish, and requested a
renewal of their commissions under the present Constitu
tion, and also a commission for John Adams Niseler,
as Third Lieutenant of the said Company, which was
granted.

ORDERED, that a commission as letter of marque be
granted to Francis Coddington, commander of a Ber-
mudian sloop called the Sunbury Hero, 75 tons and 80
men.

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At a meeting of the Council Sept. I3th, 1776.
Present :

His Excellency the Prest. Benjamin Andrew.

John Adam Treutlen. Jonathan Bryan.

John Bohun Girardeau. William LeConte.

James Scriven. James Dumvody.

Mr. John "Wilson, on behalf of the widow of Nathaniel
Hughes, applied for a proclamation to apprehend and
secure the body of Mr. Joseph Habersham, which being
considered, it was the opinion of the Board that a procla
mation be issued and published in the next Gazette, of
fering the sum of 50 pounds reward.

It is the opinion of the Board that Messrs. Spalding
and Preston be committed to the main guard, and that
the officer of the main guard be ordered to permit no one
to visit the prisoners without leave from his Excellency
the President.

Mrs. Murray made application for leave to send some
person to Cockspur for her runaway negroes, which was
not granted.

Capt. Lee waited on the Board and requested for a
Lieutenant to be appointed for his Artillery Company
in the room of Lieut. Hughes, which was deferred till
the meeting of the Convention.

Capt. John Martin waited on the Board and requested
leave to prevent Mr. Philip Moore from leaving the
Province, and was referred to the Chairman of the
Parochial Committee.

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At a meeting of the Council, Sept. I4th, 1776.
Present :

His Excellency the Prest. Jonathan Bryan.

John Adam Treutlen. Benjamin Andrew.

John Bohun Girardeau. William LeConte.

James Dunwody. James Scriven.

Mr. Sutcliffe waited on the Board respecting orders
for supplying the sick troops with necessaries, &c., which
being considered it was the opinion of the Board that Mr.
Sutcliffe do receive, from time to time, orders on the
Treasurers for such sums as may be requisite for that
purpose.

Messrs. John and James Habersham presented the
following petition to the Board.

GEORGIA:

To His Excellency ArcJiibald Bulloch, Esquire, President
and Commander in Chief of the Province of Georgia,
and the Honourable the Council of the same Province:

The humble petition of James Habersham and John
Habersham of Savannah, Sheweth :

That your petitioners have been informed by a member
of your Board, that a Proclamation is ordered to be issued
for apprehending your petitioners' brother, Joseph Hab
ersham,* late of the same Province who stands suspected
of a charge of felony, and offering a reward for that
purpose of fifty pounds. That your petitioners are ex
tremely sorry to find a proceeding of that kind intended

*The whole career of Joseph Habersham would indicate that the charges
here referred to were false, arid that they were instigated by political enemies.
In the absence of any further reference to the matter in any of the records, it is
to be presumed that the charges were untrue.

202 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

lo be adopted against their brother, for reasons they
submit to your considerations. They conceive their
brother ever bore a fair and honest character, as can be
witnessed by all his acquaintances. That he has also
been a zealous friend of the Constitution now formed
in this Country, and in his station as Major of the Geor
gia Battalion, and as a private gentleman hath ever con
ducted himself so as to gain the esteem and regard of
most people. That your petitioners further represent, they
have reason to believe (and are well assured in their own
breast : that their brother, by absenting himself, does not
mean to fly from the justice of his country, but on the
contrary, they believe he will surrender himself in a rea
sonable time, at least, so soon as his health (which when
he left this place was in a declining way) is re-establish
ed and he recovered strength to attend to his own affairs,
and make a proper defense to the charge now against
him, which your petitioners believe he can do, so far as
will remove at least a great part of imputation of crime
with which he is said to be charged. For all which
reasons your petitioners hope for this indulgence from
your humanity, in favor of their brother, that you will
' accept of security, which they are ready to give to any
amount, that their brother shall be forthcoming within
six months from this day, unless prevented by sickness
or some other unavoidable accident, which shall be made
appear (should it so happen) to your satisfaction. If
this request cannot be granted, your petitioners hope, in
justice to their brother's character as an officer and a
gentleman, you will at least postpone issuing your Proc
lamation for ten days that they may have an opportunity
to endeavor to find him out, to lay before him the conse
quence of his not surrendering in time.

And your petitioners are of opinion such notification
would induce their brother to surrender himself rather
than see a public Proclamation issued against him.

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Wherefore your petitioners pray you to consider of
the premises and grant such relief as you shall, in your
wisdom and discretion, think meet.

And they will ever pray.

(Signed) JAMES HABERSHAM,
JOHN HABERSHAM.

Savannah, the Hth September, 17/6.

Capt. Cuthbert waited on the Board and delivered in
an account of his expenses to and from Philadelphia,
together with the account of the dollars he received from
the Continental Congress.

At a meeting of the Council, 2Oth Sept., 1/76.

Present :

His Excellency the Prest. Jonathan Bryan.

John Adam Treutlen. Samuel Saltus.

John Bohun Girardeau. George Mclntosh.

Benjamin Andrew. John Houstoun.

Messrs. Henry Preston and James Spalding presented
petitions to the Board, which being read and considered,
it was their opinion that they be released on giving good
and sufficient security for their behavior in the future,
and also that Messrs. McCredie, Porteous, &c., be re
leased on the same terms.

Capt. John Rains, of Bermuda, made application about
some hhd. rum taken from him at Saint Mary's.

It was ordered that a letter be sent from this Board
to Col. Maybank requiring him to libel the said rum.

204 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

Major Mason made application to the Board for leave
to press wagons, which being considered, it was the
opinion of the Board that Major Mason do hire wagons,
and that the public do pay so much of the expense as
he shall be charged above the usual price.

At a meeting of the Council, Oct., 2cl, 1776.
Present :

His Excellency the Prest. Daniel Roberts.

Adam Fowler Brisbane. Jonathan Cochrane.

John Bohun Girardeau. Benjamin Andrew.

Samuel Saltus. John Adam Treutlen.
George Mclntosh.

His Excellency the President laid before the Board
sundry papers received from Philadelphia, which \vere
read accordingly.

At a meeting of the Council, Oct. /th, 1776.
Present :

His Excellency the Prest. Jonathan Bryan.

Nathan Brownson. George Mclntosh.

John Adam Treutlen. James Dunwody.

Adam Fowler Brisbane. Daniel Roberts.

Button Gwinnett. Samuel Saltus.

William LeConte. Jonathan Cochrane.
Benjamin Andrew.

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The President laid the following before this Board,
viz. :

IN CONVENTION.

This house having received some information which
gives them great reason to apprehend an attack is in
tended against this Province; and having also been in
formed of an armed boat being upon the coast, and hav
ing committed some acts of depredation upon the inhabi
tants. It is the opinion of this house that the said mat
ter, together with all evidence and proofs attending the
same, be referred to the President. That he be requested
by and with the advice of this Council to use the most
vigorous, speedy and effectual means for putting the
Province in a proper posture of defense, so as to repel
the said attacks in case they shall be made, and prevent
further depredations and robberies ; and to assure him
that this Province will most heartily concur with him
in the said measures, and cheerfully defray the expenses
attending the same.

ORDERED, that a copy of this minute be presented to
the President by Mr. Speaker after the rising of the
House.

The above being considered, it was the opinion of the
Board that two boats of ten men each be stationed at the
inlets of Hossaba, Saint Catherine's, Sapalo and at the
dividings of Saint Simon's Island, for observation and
intelligence ; and fifty men stationed at the extreme points
of land Beulah, Hardwick, Sunbury, Sutherland's Bluff
and Darien.

206 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

GEORGIA :

By his Excellency Arclid. Bullocli, Esqr., President and
Commander in Chief of the said State.

To Col. Lachlan Mclntosh:

SIR : — You are hereby desired immediately to station
fifty men at the extreme points of land at Beulah, and
the same number at Hardwick, Sunbury, Sutherland's
Bluff and Darien, or such proportion as you can spare
at each place, and to complete the whole as soon as pos
sible; and also to make return of both the cavalry and
infantry within this State. And you are likewise desired
to send off immediately an express to Brigadier General
Howe, that he will forthwith order the troops belonging
to the Georgia Battalion to march for this State, and
cause the boats to be returned that were lent the South
Carolinians to transport them to Beaufort, and once
more to make a requisition of the ammunition due to
the State of Georgia.

Dated at Savannah, the seventh day of October, one
thousand, seven hundred and seventy-six.

(Signed) A. BULLOCH.

It was the opinion of the Board that orders do issue
to the several officers of the battalions to draught the
Militia into three divisions, and that the first division
be in readiness to march at a moment's warning; and
also that orders do issue to Captains Morris and Wood-
ruffe to make a return of the men under their command.

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At a meeting of the Council, Oct. ioth. 17/6.
Present :

His Excellency the Prest. Jonathan Cochrane.

Adam Fowler Brisbane. Samuel Saltus.

John Bohun Girardeau. George Mclntosh.

John Adam Treutlen. James Scriven.

Jonathan Bryan. William LeConte.

Button Gwinnett. James Dumvody.

Benjamin Andrew. Daniel Roberts.
John Houstoun.

ORDERED, that Messrs. William LeConte, George Mc
lntosh and Jonathan Cochrane be a Committee to exam
ine into the election held at Wrightsboro for a Colonel
to Regiment of Foot Militia.

GEORGIA :

By Plis Excellency Archd. Bullock, Esqr., Etc.

WHEREAS, It hath been represented to me in Council
that a party of men belonging to this State have lately
taken into their possession certain negro slaves, late the
property of Clement Martin deceased; who died consid
erably indebted to the full amount (as it is said) of the
whole estate which he left behind him. And that the said
negroes are now held and detained by them under pre
tence of their being the property of John Martin, and
are now advertised for sale.

I have therefore thought fit by and with the advice and
consent of Council absolutely to forbid the said sale.
And to require and command all persons whatsoever who
have, hold, or detain the said negroes, under any pre
tence whatsoever (as they will answer the contrary at

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their peril) to deliver up the said negroes to Lewis John
son and George Baillie, Esquire, Executors of the estate
of the said Clement Martin (or their agent) in order
that due and proper administration of the said estate may
be made and the creditors receive their demands, etc.,
given.

At a meeting of the Council, i8th October, 1776.
Present :

His Excellency the Prest. Benjamin Andrew.

John Adam Treutlen. Nathan Brownson.

Adam Fowler Brisbane. George Mclntosh.

Jonathan Bryan. Daniel Roberts.

The commissary of the Virginia troops applied for the
loan of five hundred pounds, for the use of their troops.

ORDERED, that the treasurers be directed to deliver him
the said sum, on receiving a bill on the State of Virginia.

ORDERED, that Capt. Pray be directed to proceed on a
voyage to the Island of Saint Thomas and to procure
as many seamen, arms, ammunition and swivels as he
possibly can, and that he be permitted to mount as many
carriage guns, as the vessel can bear on his return hither.

John O'Brien presented a petition to the Board, setting
forth that at the present sessions of the Peace held in
Savannah, he was indicted and convicted, under an Act
of the General Assembly of this State of uttering and
paying away counterfeit money of the State of South
Carolina, whereby he becomes liable to suffer very severe
punishment.

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That he being conscious of his innocence, notwith
standing his conviction, is willing to make any atonement
to the State, and therefore prays he may be pardoned,
upon condition of his enlisting as a soldier in the service
of this State and receiving no bounty money for the same.

It was the opinion of the Board, that the said John
O'Brien should be pardoned and permitted to enlist as
a soldier.

Sunday, October 2oth, 1776.

William Bryan and William Belcher were chosen mem
bers of this Board, in the room of Daniel Roberts and
James Scriven, Esquires.

At a meeting of Council, Oct. 2ist, 1776.

Present :

His Excellency the Prest. William Belcher.

John Adam Treutlen. George Mclntosh.

Jonathan Cochrane. Button Gwinnett.

John Houston. Jonathan Bryan.
William Bryan.

Mr. Luke Mann presented his account to the Board,
which they thought proper to refer to the Convention,
but in the mean time agreed that he should receive an
order on the Treasurer for five hundred pounds.

Capt. Pray recommended Mr. Nudigate as his First
Lieutenant, which was agreed to.

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ORDERED, that the inhabitants of Saint Paul be di
rected to proceed to the election of officers for the bat
talion of Militia in that Parish, on giving ten days' no
tice, and that then the officers do elect field officers for
the said battalion.

At a meeting of the Council, Oct. 22d, 17/6.
Present :

His Excellency the Prest. William Belcher.

Jonathan Cochrane. William Bryan.

Button Gwinnett. George Mclntosh.

Jonathan Bryan. John Houstoun.

Mr. William Bryan and Mrs. Mary Morel presented
the following petition to the Board :

STATE OF GEORGIA.

To His Excellency Archibald Bulloch, Esqr., President,
and to the Members of the Honorable the Council of
the said State.

The petition of Mary Morel, widow and relict of John
Morel, late of the said State, Esqr., deceased, and Wil
liam Bryan, of the same place, Esqr., Sheweth :

That your petitioners have (in consequence of an order
lately made and issued from your Honorable Board, for
removing all cattle and other stock from the islands
within this State, with which they are now using their
utmost endeavors to comply) been put to very great in
convenience and loss, having no place upon the main
whereto they can carry their said stock.

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That your petitioners are informed there is a tract
of two thousand acres of land in the Parish of Saint
Philip, adjoining Red Bird Creek, formerly granted to
John Reynolds, Esqr., then Governor of this State, and
another tract of five hundred acres granted to Alexander
Kellet and adjoining the above tract, which tracts remain
unoccupied and still in the name of the said grantees.

That your petitioners conceive this Honorable Board
will think them well entitled to any favor or indulgence
which they can shew, when they consider the great sacri
fice your petitioners have made to the common cause,
and that the inconvenience they are now put to, and the
necessity of this application, arise from such sacrifice;
and, therefore, they beg leave to propose to your Honor
able Board that a lease of the said two tracts of land
pass to your petitioners in the following proportion ;
that is to say, one thousand acres of the first mentioned
tract to your petitioner Mary Morel ; such lease to con
tinue until the said lands shall be otherwise disposed of
by this State. And in case your petitioners shall make
any improvements in the way of building upon their
respective proportions of the said lands, that then (when
the said lands shall be taken out of their hands) your
petitioners be allowed for the same. And your, &c., &c.

The Board having taken the foregoing petition into
consideration, are of opinion that the same is perfectly
reasonable and ought fo be granted.

Therefore, resolved, that the petitioners be permitted to
take possession of the said lands as prayed for, render
ing rent one pepper corn to the State yearly, and that
the Board have no doubt that when the said lands shall be
taken out of the petitioners' hands, any improvements
they may make in the way of building will be allowed
for.

212 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

At a meeting of the Council, Nov. 2d, 1776.

Present :

His Excellency the Prest. Jonathan Cochrane.
Benjamin Andrew. Samuel Saltus.

William Bryan. John Houstoun.

Jonathan Bryan.

At a meeting of the Council, November 5th, 1776.

Present :

His Excellency the Prest. Button Gwinnett.

John Adam Treutlen. Jonathan Cochrane.

Adam Fowler Brisbane. Nathan Brownson.

Jonathan Bryan. William Bryan.

Jonathan Bryan, Esqr., laid before the Board a letter
from Edwd.- Telfair respecting the battery to be built
at Tybee; which being considered it was the opinion of
the Board, that ten negroes, able axmen, be taken from
each of Sir James Wright's plantations and also ten from
each of Mr. Knox's, to assist at the said battery.

Mr. Lee Dickinson and Capt. Scott proposed to the
Board to raise and bring into this State each a Troop of
Horse on condition of receiving Captain's commission
for each respective troop ; it was the opinion of the Board,
it should be granted them, and that the gentleman who
first completed and marched his troop into this State,
should receive the first commission.

On considering the present alarmed state of this Col
ony, it was the opinion of the Board, that the Convention
be summoned to convene on Thursday, the fourteenth of
this instant.

JOURNAL OF COUNCIL OF SAFETY 213

At a meeting of the Council, 6th November, 1776.

Present :

His Excellency the Prest. John Houstoun.

John Adam Treutlen. Nathan Brownson.

Adam Fowler Brisbane. Button Gwinnett.

Jonathan Cochrane. William Bryan.

Capt. Alexander Phoenix attended the Board and
recommended George Young as Captain Lieutenant,
James Alexander First Lieutenant, and Seybourne John
son Second Lieutenant, of the Artillery Company under
his command, which was agreed to.

Lieutenant Colonel Habersham attended the Board
and laid the following representation before them.

GENTLEMEN : — I find by a late Resolve of the Conti
nental Congress that it is recommended to the different
States to fill their respective Regiments as soon as possi
ble, also to renew the tests of those men whose time is
near expiring, for which purpose we are authorized to
give the difference between twenty dollars and the money
that they received at their first enlisting, however, Gentle
men, I would submit to your consideration the present
state of the First Regiment, of which I have the honor
to be Lieutenant Colonel, and whether it would not be
most expedient and more for the service of this State,
for the protection of which that Regiment was imme
diately raised, to grant the full bounty to those men,
who are willing to renew their enlistment and serve dur
ing the war than for the difference of perhaps four or
five dollars to lose the men, their times are near expiring
and they know that by remaining a few months longer
in the service, they will be at liberty, that they may then
go or stay as suits them, and that we must, if we want
them again, give them the full bounty.

214 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

I would further observe, Gentlemen, that it has cost
great pains to bring these people into some order, that
they are just now pretty expert in their exercise, even
supposing we could get others to fill their places, these
we should have the same trouble with to give them a
competent knowledge of the use of arms.

There is another grand inducement, which, in my
opinion, should have weight, the near prospect of an In
dian War, and perhaps at the very time we are march
ing against the enemy the term of many of their enlist
ments may expire, and by that means we be deprived of
their service. These reasons induced me to address your
Honorable Board on the subject, and I have not the
smallest doubt, but it will appear to you, Gentlemen, to
be more for the service of the State, that it should pay
two or three hundred pounds extraordinary than run the
risk, especially at this critical juncture, to lose the men in
our Regiment, or at any rate the greatest part of them.

This was deferred to the consideration of the Conven
tion.

ORDERED, that the following letter be forwarded to the
Delegates for the several Parishes and Districts within
this State.

GENTLEMEN : — His Excellency the President and
Council considering the present alarmed state of this
country, and the absolute necessity of our immediate
exertions, in order to prevent the breaking up of many
of our settlements, have thought proper to direct that
notwithstanding the adjournment of our late Convention
for five weeks, the Delegates for the several Parishes
and Districts within this State be forthwith summoned
to meet at Savannah on Monday, the eighteenth day of
this instant, November. I am therefore ordered to give

JOURNAL OF COUNCIL OF SAFETY. 215

you this notice, that yon may convene at the Town of
Savannah accordingly and proceed to finish so much of
the public business, as requires immediate dispatch.

Savannah, 22d Nov., 1776.

Will Audley Maxwell, St. John's Parish, dec'd, to be

proven and Executors qualified.
Will John Stewart, Medway, dec'd, to do

Will Gasper Garbet, Savannah carpenter,

dec'd to do

Will George Sweiger, Eben., plantr., dec'd, to do
Will Mary Powell, Savan., wife Capt. Powell,

to do

Letters Adminsn. for Cath. Eirick, Adm., and to qualify.
Letters ditto for Quintin Pooler and to qualify.
Petn. and Citation Jno. Glen for And. McLean Est.

Danl. Wastcot.

The above matters in the Court of Ordinary being all
plain and simple, we, the subscribers, being seven of the
Council and members of the said Court, have no objec
tions to the same being done before his Excellency the
President at his chambers (in consequence of his indis
position and inability to attend the Court) in case his
Excellency shall think proper so to do. This we agree
to to prevent delay and that the parties may not be de
tained in town, and if his Excellency shall so require,
we will ratify what shall be done herein at our next meet
ing.

(Signed) Adam F. Brisbane. John Bryan.

Wm. Bryan. Jno. B. Girardeau.

Geo. Mclntosh. Benj. Andrew.
Jno. Houstoun. Jas. Dunwody.

216 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

At a meeting of the Council, Nov. 2$d, 1776.
i , ,.

Present :

F»- • ...

Adam Fowler Brisbane. Benj. Andrew.

James Dunwody. Button Gwinnett.

John Girardeau. James Maxwell.

Jonathan Bryan. George Mclntosh.
John Houstoun.

Adam Fowler Brisbane laid before the Board some
particulars relative to Mr. Thomas Goldsmith, when it
was their opinion that he should be permitted to go to
Sunbury to see his family.

Mr. Edward Davies attended on the Board and de
livered the followin affidavit :

Edward Davies maketh oath that about the 25th day
of October last, he was at St. Augustine, and that Mr.
Kelsall told him that the Brig Beaufort, now lying in
Ogeechee River, was expected daily to Mr. Pantoirs
address. As the said brig belonged to the deponent
and partners, he applied to Mr. Panton to know on what
account she was to come away. Mr. Panton answered
she was licensed by Governor Tonyn for St. Augustine,
and requested of the deponent to know where he would
receive saicl vessel, she being on monthly wages, but in
case of capture a valuation was to be paid in a sum un
known to the deponent.

Sworn before me, Nov. 23d, 1776.

EDW. LANGWORTHY, /. P.

The Board took into consideration the above affidavit,
and directed the following orders to be issued to Briga
dier General Mclntosh.

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SIR: — You are hereby desired to issue orders imme
diately to the commanding officer of the guard on Ogee-
chee River, that he take into his possession the sails be
longing to the Brig Beaufort, and prevent the said brig
from proceeding on her voyage till further orders from
this Board.

(Signed) ARCH. BULLOCH.
To the Honble. B. Gen. Mclntosh.

At 'a meeting of the Council, Nov. 25th, i//6.

Present :

Adam Fowler Brisbane. Geo. Mclntosh.

James Dumvody. Button Gwinnett.

Benjn. Andrew. James Maxwell.

Jonathan Bryan. Jno. Girardeau.
John Houstoun.

The Board took into consideration the information
of Mr. Davies respecting the Brig Beaufort, and were
unanimously of opinion that it should be referred to the
Convention.

Mr. Philip Minis attended on the Board and requested
to have an order on the Treasurers for the use of the
Northern troops, and on account of \Ym. Kennon, Esqr.,
Continental Commissary General, to the amount of eight
thousand dollars, which was granted him as follows :

218 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

SAVANNAH, 2510 Nov. 1776.

GENTLEMEN : — Pay to Mr. Philip Minis, or order,
eight thousand dollars, Georgia Currency, for value re
ceived.

(Signed) A. B.
To Messrs. Ewen & O'Brien.

SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, 25th Nov. 1776.

Three days after sight of this my first of exchange,
second of same tenor and date not paid, pay Messrs.
Ewen & O'Brien, or order, Treasurers of this state,
eight thousand Continental dollars, value received of
them, for the use of the troops now in this State, and
charge the same to the account of

Your humble servant,

PHILIP MINIS.

To Wm. Kennon, Esqr.,
Cont. Com. General,
In Charleston.

JOURNAL OF COUNCIL OF SAFETY. 219

At a meeting of the Council, December 7th, 17/6.

Present :

His Excellency the Prest. James [Maxwell.

Adam Fowler Brisbane. Benj. Andrew.

John Bohun Girardeau. John Houstoun.

Jonn. Bryan. Samuel Saltus.

GEORGIA:

By His Excellency Archd. Bulloch, Esquire:

To the Provost Marshal of the said State his Bailiffs
and Deputies:

WHEREAS divers orders have issued from me by and
with the advice and consent of the Council for the de
livery up to the Executors of the last Will and Testa
ment of Clement Martin, deceased, certain negroes be
longing to the said estate which by some means or other
have fallen into the hands of certain people (at present
unknown) in the Parish of St. John — all which orders
have been disobeyed or treated with contempt. These are
therefore in the name and in behalf of the said State to
command and require you without delay to repair to the
said Parish of St. John, or wherever else it may be requi
site, and to take into your custody all and singular the
said negroes and to bring them to Savannah, and imme
diately deliver them into the custody of the said Execu
tors. And in case any person or persons whatsoever shall
obstruct or oppose you in taking possession of the said ne
groes, then you are hereby required to take such person
or persons into your custody, and to bring him or them
also down to Savannah to be dealt with according to
law.

And further to do hereby charge and require all per-

220 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

sons whatsoever within this State, civil and military,
who are well affected and wish to maintain the due au
thority of the same to aid and assist you, if it shall be
found necessary, in the execution of this order, as they
shall answer the contrary at their peril.

Given under my hand and seal in Council at Savannah,
the eighth day of December, one thousand seven hun
dred and seventy-six.

ORDERED, that commissions be forthwith issued agree
able to the returns made to this Board.

Jno. Keebler, Captain of the Grenadier Company in
the Lower District of Saint Matthew's ; Charles Mackay,
First Lieutenant; Martin Dasher, Second Lieutenant;
Danl. Tretler, Third Lieutenant.

John Lamar, Captain ; James Martin, Geo. Randolph
and Francis Folliott, First, Second and Third Lieuten
ants of the First Battalion, Third Regiment Foot Militia.

George Downs, Captain; Johnson, First Lieu
tenant ; Theophilus Davis, Second Lieutenant ; John
Creitingclor, Third Lieutenant.

Robert Bonner, Captain of the Augusta Volunteer
Company; Moody Burt, First Lieutenant; Thomas Car
ter, Second Lieutenant and Wm. Perrie, Third Lieu
tenant.

Matthew Marshall, Third Lieutenant of the sixth
company of Foot Militia, commanded by Capt. John Mc-
Canliss.

December 24th, 1776.

George Wells, Esqr., qualified as a Justice of the Peace
for the Parish of Saint Paul.

JOURNAL OF COUNCIL OF SAFETY. 221

At a meeting of the Council, January 8th, 1777.
Present :

His Excellency the Prest. James Maxwell.

Jonathan Bryan. Wm. Bryan.

Wm. Belcher. John Houstoun.

Button Gwinnett. Benjamin Andrew.

Mr. James Maxwell laid a letter before the Board, by
which it appeared that Mr. Philip Moore had detained
on board the brig Beaufort eight casks of indigo, be
longing to the public, which he had done for the ex
penses due to him on account of the said brig. This
affair being considered it was the opinion of the Board,
that Mr. Philip Moore be immediately taken into close
confinement, until he shall deliver the said indigo.

On considering a letter representing the present alarm
ed state of our Frontier, it was the opinion of the Board,
that one-third of the Militia be immediately draughted
and ordered to scout by rotation on the frontiers of this
State.

ORDERED, that the trial of Capt. Lyford's negroes be
postponed, and that the prosecutors be ordered to appear
and show cause, why the trial of the said negroes should
not be at Savannah.

222 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

At a meeting of the Council, Jan. gih, 1777.
Present :

His Excellency the Prest. John Houstoun.

Adam Fowler Brisbane. Wm. Bryan.

James Maxwell. Button Gwinnett.

Jonathan Bryan. Benj. Andrew.

The following was omitted in the minutes of yester
day :

SIR: — I inclose you the account of all the indigo I
purchased on account of the public, amounting to £9,632,
in forty-four casks and one open barrel. You have, I
believe, received from me thirty-six casks (say thirty-
rive casks, one keg and the open barrel) ; the other eight
I have detained.

If the Honorable Council are going to do anything
with this indigo before the meeting of the Convention, I
beg you will, sir, be pleased to inform them that the
motions that induced me to retain a part of the public
property in my hands, was a security to me for the
amount they are so justly indebted to me. You must
be very sensible of the very many delays I met with in
the Convention, and altho' by a resolve of that Honora
ble House I am entitled to be paid for my detention, yet,
to my very great surprise, my account was returned to
me, not passed for payment, and my friend who gave it
to me declared he believed it would be impossible for
me to ever get paid.

I have consulted many merchants here respecting this
matter, who all agree I am right in taking this step and

JOURNAL OF COUNCIL OF SAFETY. 223

securing myself. I have many apologies to make for the
trouble I now give you, and am, with respect, sir,

Your most obedt. Servant,

PHILIP MOORE.
To James Maxwell, Esqr.

ORDERED, that no recruiting officers from South Caro
lina shall enlist any men within this State, without ex
press permission first obtained from the Convention, or,
in its recess, from the President and Council.

ORDERED, that Mr. Carey be sent to Saint Augustine
with a flag of truce, to demand Capt. Woodruffe and the
other prisoners, and that he offer in exchange Lieutenant
Beecher, or any other prisoners now in our custody.

Mr. Maxwell laid the following letter before the
Board from Mr. Philip Moore :

SIR : — When further consideration and a doubting my
own advice, instead of my friends, I think that I have
been rather premature in delaying the indigo that I have,
the property of the public. I therefore beg you vrill be
kind enough, sir, to cancel my letter of yesterday, and re
ceive the remaining eight casks of indigo, which I left
under the care of the Captain of the Guard at Mr.
Stone's house, and will depend on the honor of the Con
vention for the payment of my account.

Indeed, if those gentlemen knew how well their indigo
was laid in, I think they would not scruple to do it, as
I am certain, were this parcel of indigo mine, I could get
for it near 25 per cent more than it cost. When you
have received this other parcel, I will be obliged to you
for a receipt of it, any expenses attending getting it from

224 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

the Ogeechee Guard shall be cheerfully repaid with many
thanks by, sir,

Your most obedient servant,

PHILIP MOORE.
James Maxwell, Esqr.

Thursday morning.

Messrs. Jones and Munro waited on the Board, respect
ing some Indian prisoners now at Sunbury, which being
considered, it was referred to the Convention.

At a meeting of the Council, February 2ist, 1777.
Present :

His Excellency the Prest. Button Gwinnett.

Adam Fowler Brisbane. Benjamin Andrew.

Jonathan Bryan. John Bohun Girardeau.
William Bryan.

His Excellency the President informed the Board, that
being not able to convene a sufficient number of Coun
cilors, and considering the alarming situation of this
State, he had issued orders to the commanding officer
of the First Battalion of the First Regiment to turn out
the men under his command immediately, to relieve the
regulars, who are to march to the southward.

Also orders to Col. Sandiford to turn out the Regi
ment under his command, and likewise orders to the
commanding officers of the Parishes of St. Matthew, St.
George, St. Paul and the Ceded Lands to have their

JOURNAL OF COUNCIL OF SAFETY. 225

men in readiness to inarch, in case they should be or
dered, all which was approved of.

ORDERED,, that one-third of the Militia of the Parishes
of St. Matthew and St. George be directed immediately
to march to Medway Meeting House and there to remain,
till further orders.

At a meeting of the Council, February 22cl, 1777.
Present :

His Excellency the Prest. Benjn. Andrew.
John Girardeau. vYm. Bryan.

Jonathan Bryan. Adam Fowler Brisbane.

Button Gwinnett.

\YHEREAS, the present alarming situation of this State
makes it absolutely necessary, that every friend of Amer
ican liberty should stand forth and support the same ; and
whereas, a great part of the Militia of this State, are now
ordered out in service, and the remainder ready to turn
out, at a moment's warning, it is therefore agreed, that
the camp shall be fixed at present at Medway Meeting
House in the Parish of Saint John's.

ORDERED, that a letter be forthwith dispatched to Mr.
Thomas Savage, acquainting him that we thankfully ac
cept of the offer of his schooner, and that if he will keep
the schooner within the islands he will be joined by Com
modore Bowen, with whom he may act in concurrence.

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226 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

PAY OE A BATTALION IN THE CONTINENTAL SERVICE.

Colonel 50 Dollars per month.

Lieutenant Colonel 40 do do do

Major 33^3 do do do

Captain 26^3 do do do

Lieutenant 18 do do do

Ensign 131/3 do do do

Adjutant 185/3 do do do

Quarter Master 18^/3 do do do

Surgeon 25 Raised to 33 June

5th, 1776.

Mate 1 8 Dollars per month.

Chaplain 20 Raised to 33X3, Jury

^ 5th.

Sergeant 8 Dollars per month.

Corporal, Drummer and Fife,

each 7^ do do do

Private 6^3 Light Infantry the

same.

ARTILLERY.

Captain 26^3 Dollars per month.

Captain Lieutenant 20 do do do

First and Second Lieutenants 18^3 do do do

Lieutenant Fireworker 13^3 do do do

Sergeant 8^3 do do do

Corporal 7^ do do do

Bombardier 7 do do do

Matross 6^ do do do

Sergeant Major 9 do do do

Quartermaster Sergeant 9 do do do

Drum Major 8^ do do do

Fife Major &/3 do do do

Regimental Paymaster 26^3 do do do

JOURNAL OF COUNCIL OF SAFETY. 227

GEORGIA— In Council, Aug. 8th, 1776.

Mr. Thomas Young presented a petition to the Board,
setting forth that when he was last at Saint Augustine
he purchased a quantity of goods from one Archibald
Lundy, and that he now stands actually engaged for the
payment of the said goods, the amount of upwards of
three thousand, five hundred pounds -sterling; which
being considered, it was ordered that the said goods be
still retained in possession of the Commissary of this
State, and be sold by him to the people, and that this
Board will be answerable to Mr. Lundy for the amount
of such goods as may come into their hands.

August Qth, 1776.

Thomas Young, Esqr., waited on the Board and re
quested that his affair respecting the goods of Archibald
Lundy might be reconsidered; when it was the opinion
of the Board that it be referred to the consideration of the
next Convention.

A true copy from the minutes.

EDW. LANGWORTHY, Secy.

GEORGIA— In Convention, Feb. I7th, 1777.

The petition of Mr. Thomas Young was returned,
with the following report of the Committee : That as
Archd. Lundy, of Saint Augustine, from whom Mr.
Thomas Young says, in his petition, that he bought a
parcel of goods, has been actually concerned in levying
war against and plundering the inhabitants of this State,

228 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

it is their opinion that Mr. Young ought not to receive
any compensation for the said goods, which was unani
mously agreed to ; and it was resolved that it is the sense
of this House that any contract or agreement which
Thomas Young, of this State, hath entered into with
Archibald Lundy, of the Province of East Florida, mer
chant, relative to the purchase of a certain parcel of
goods, some time seized and sold in this State as the
property of the said Lundy, shall be held to be null and
void. And in case any suit shall be commenced upon the
same, no Judge or Court ought to suffer such suit to be
prosecuted or carried on, but shall order the party plain
tiff to be non-suited, it being the act of House, and not
of the said Thomas Young, which prevents a perform
ance of any such contract or agreement.

A true copy of the minutes.

EDWARD LANGWORTHY, Sec'y.

I do certify and declare that I have often seen and am
well acquainted with the handwriting of Edward Lang-
worthy, late Secretary to the Council and Convention of
this State, and I, in my conscience, believe the preced
ing extracts from their minutes, and the name Edward
Langworthy, to be the proper handwriting of him, the
said Edward Langworthy.

JAS. MAXWELL.

nth November, 1777.

On the 4th of July, 1775, the Provincial Congress met
at Tondee's Long Room, Savannah. Every parish and
district was represented and the congress was organized
by the choice of Archibald Bulloch as President and
George Walton as Secretary. An imperfect journal, all
that can now be found, of the proceedings of this Con
gress is here inserted.

JOURNAL OF PROVINCIAL CONGRESS. 229

[Reprint from White's Historical Collections and Col
lections of the Georgia Historical Society.]

PROCEEDINGS

OF THE

GEORGIA PROVINCIAL CONGRESS.

WEDNESDAY, July i2th, 17/5.

At a Provincial Congress, held agreeable to appoint
ment at Tonclee's Long Room at Savannah, on the
fourth day of July, 17/5, and continued from day to day,
the following persons were returned duly elected, viz :

Town and District of Savannah : Archibald Bulloch,
Noble Wimberly Jones, Joseph Habersham, Jonathan
Bryan, Ambrose Wright, William Young, John Glen,
Samuel Elbert, John Houstoun, Oliver Bowen, John
McCluer, Edward Telfair, Thomas Lee, George Hous
toun. Joseph Reynolds, John Smith, William Ewen, John
Martin, Doctor Zubly, William Bryan, Philip Box,
Philip Allman, William O'Bryan, Joseph Clay, Seth John
Cuthbert.

District of Vernonburgh : Joseph Butler, Andrew-
Elton Wells, Mathew Roche, Jim.

District of Acton : David Zubly, Basil Cowper, Wil
liam Gibbons.

Sea Island District : Col. Deveaux, Col. de La Gall,
James Bulloch, John Morrell, John Bohun Gerreadieu,
John Barnard, Robert Gibson.

230 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

District of the Little Ogeechee: Francis Henry Har
ris, Joseph Gibbons, James Robertson.*

Parish of Saint Mathew : John Stirk, John Adam
Treutlen, George Walton, Edward Jones, Jacob Wald-
hauer, Philip Howell, Isaac Young, Jenkin Davis, John
Morel, John Flurl, Charles McKay, Christopher Cramer.

Parish of St. Philip: Col. Butler, William Le Conte,
William Maxwell, James Maxwell, Stephen Drayton,
Adam Fowler Brisbane, Luke Mann, Hugh Bryan.

Parish of Saint George: Henry Jones, John Green,
Thomas Burton, William Lord, David Lewis, Benjamin
Lewis, James Pugh, John Fulton.

Parish of Saint Andrew : Jonathan Cochran, William
Jones, Peter Tarlin, Lachlan Mclntosh, William Mcln-
tosh, George Threadcraft, John Wereat, Roderick Mc
lntosh, John Witherspoon, George Mclntosh, Allan
Stewart, John Mclntosh, Raymond Demere.

Parish of Saint David : Seth John Cuthbert, William
Williams, Sen.

Parish Saint Mary : Daniel Ryan.
Parish of Saint Thomas : John Roberts.

Parish of Saint Paul : John Walton, Joseph Mad-
dock,* Andrew Burns, Robert Rae, James Rae, Andrew
Moore, Andrew Burney, Leonard Marbury.

Parish of Saint Johns : James Screven, Nathan
Brownson, Daniel Roberts, John Baker, Sen., John Ba
con, Sen., James Maxwell, Edward Ball, William Baker,
Sen., William Bacon, Jun., John Stephens, John Winn,
Sen.

Thoee marked * declined taking their seats.

JOURNAL OF PROVINCIAL CONGRESS. 231

Archibald Bulloch, esquire, being proposed as Presi
dent, was unanimously elected ; and George Walton,
esquire, being proposed as Secretary, was also unani
mously elected.

The Congress then adjourned to the Meeting House
of the Rev. D. Zubly, where he preached a sermon on
the alarming state of American affairs.

The Congress being returned, a motion was made and
seconded, that the thanks of this Congress be given to
the Rev. Dr. Zubly, for the excellent sermon he preached
this day to the members, which being unanimously agreed
to it was ordered, that Basil Cowper, Joseph Clay, John
Houstoun, John Glen, and George Houstoun, esquires,
be a committee for that purpose.

WEDNESDAY, 5th July, 1775.

A motion was made and seconded, that this Congress
apply to his excellency, the Governor, by message, re
questing him to appoint a day of Fasting and Prayer
throughout this province, on account of the disputes
subsisting between America and the parent State, which
being unanimously passed in the affirmative it was or
dered that Dr. Zubly, William Jones, Dr. Jones, John
Glen, John Houstoun, Joseph Clay, Stephen Drayton,
and William Maxwell, be a committee for that purpose.

COPY OF THE MESSAGE.

May it please your excellency :

The Provincial Congress, deeply -concerned #t the
present state of affairs and the distress of America hum-

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bly request that your excellency would appoint a day of
Fasting and Prayer to be observed throughout this prov
ince that a happy reconciliation may soon take place be
tween America and the parent State, and that under the
auspicious reign of his Majesty, and his descendants,
both countries may remain united, free, virtuous and
happy, till time shall be no more.

By order of the Congress.

ARCHIBALD BULLOCH, President.

The President being informed by the messenger, that
John Jamison and John Simpson, esquires, were in wait
ing, and desired to be admitted, which being agreed to
they were desired to walk in.

They then produced and delivered in to the President,
a paper containing several resolutions entered into by a
number of persons, inhabitants of the town of Savannah,
which was ordered to be read, and is as follows, viz :

At a meeting" of several of the inhabitants of the town
of Savannah, at Mrs. Cuyler's, on Friday the thirteenth
of June, 1/75, present, John Mullrine, esquire, in the
chair, Joseph Clay, James Morsman, Rev. Mr. J. J.
Zubly, John Simpson, Noble Wimberly Jones, John Jami
son, William Moss, John Glen, Josiah Tatnall, John Gra
ham, Lewis Johnston, William Young, Richard Wylly,
Andrew McLean, Basil Cowper, Phillip Moore, George
Houstoun, Joseph Butler, James Read, Thomas Reid,
William Panton, James Edward Powell, William Struth-
ers, Alexander McGowen, John C. Lucena, Thomas
Sherman, J. N. Fanning, Levi Sheftall, Charles Hamil
ton, George Spence. William Brown, Jr., Francis Cour-
vcizie, James Anderson.

WHEREAS, publick confusions and grievances are
much increased by private dissention and animosities ;

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RESOLVED, therefore, nem. con., That we will use our
utmost endeavors to preserve the peace and good order
of this province, and that no person, behaving himself
peaceably and inoffensively, shall be molested in his per
son and property, or even in his private sentiments, while
he expresses them with decency and without any illiberal
reflections upon others.

WHEREAS, The acts for raising a perpetual revenue
in America, and all the measures used to enforce these
acts, are not partial but general grievances, and it is
more likely that redress be obtained by joint endeavors
of all who may think these acts unconstitutional or op
pressive, than by any measure that might be taken singly
by individuals, therefore,

RESOLVED, That it is the opinion of this meeting, (as
a proper measure to be pursued, because the general as
sembly is not now sitting, from whom an application to
the throne must be very proper, and as no time should
be lost.) that a humble, dutiful and decent petition be
addressed to his Majesty, expressive of the sense, appre
hensions and feelings of all such as may choose to sub
scribe such a petition, which it is to be hoped will be done
by every man in the province; and it is therefore the
wish of this meeting that such a measure may be adopted
by the Provincial Congress, intended to be held on Tues
day next, the fourth of July.

RESOLVED, That the interest of this province is in
separable from the mother country, and all the sister
Colonies, and that to separate themselves from the latter
would only be throwing difficulties in tlie way of its own
relief, and that of the other Colonies, and justly incurring
the resentment of all those to whose distress our dis
union might cause an addition.

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That this province ought, and it is hoped
will, forthwith join the other provinces in every just and
legal measure to secure and restore the liberties of all
America, and for healing the unhappy divisions now
subsisting between Great Britain and her Colonies.

RESOLVED, That the proceedings of this meeting be
laid before the Provincial Congress on Tuesday, the
fourth day of July next, and that Wm. Jamison and Mr.
Simpson, do wait upon them with the same, as recom
mended to them by this meeting.

By order of the Meeting. JOHN MULLRINE.

A motion was made and seconded, that the paper above
mentioned do lie upon the table for the perusal of the
members, which, being carried, the same was ordered to
lie upon the table accordingly.

A motion was made and seconded, that this Congress
do put this province upon the same footing with our
sister Colonies, which, being put, it \vas ordered that it
be taken into consideration to-morrow morning.

By order of the Congress.
A true copy of the minutes.

GEO. WALTON, Secretary.

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THURSDAY, 6th of July, 1775.

The order of the day being read, the same was taken
into consideration, and after some deliberation, it was
unanimously

RESOLVED, i, That this province will adopt, and carry
into execution, all and singular the measures and recom
mendations of the late Continental Congress.

RESOLVED, 2, in particular, that we, in behalf of our
selves and our constitution, do adopt and approve of the
American Declaration, or Bill of Rights, published by
the late Continental Congress, in consequence of several
infractions thereof.

RESOLVED, 3, That we will not receive into this prov
ince any goods, wares or merchandise, shipped from
Great Britain or Ireland, or from any other place any
such goods, wares or merchandise, as shall have been
exported from Great Britain or Ireland, after this day;
nor will we import any East Indian tea from any part
of the world ; nor any molasses, syrups, powder, or
coffee, or pimento; nor wTines from Madeira or the
Western Islands, nor foreign indigo.

RESOLVED, 4, That we will neither import or pur
chase any slave, imported from Africa or elsewhere, after
this day.

RESOLVED, 5, As a Non-consumption Agreement,
strictly adhered to, will be effectual security for the ob
servation of the Non-importation, we as above, solemnly
agree and associate, that from this clay, we will not pur
chase or use any tea imported on account of the East
India Company, or any on which a duty has or shall be
paid, and we will not purchase or use any East India tea

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whatever, nor will we merchandise, we have agreed not
to import, which we shall know, or have cause to suspect
were imported after this day.

RESOLVED, 6, The earnest desire we have not to in
jure our fellow subjects in Great Britain and Ireland and
the West Indies, induces us to suspend non-exportation
until the tenth day of September, 17/5, at which time,
if the act and parts of acts of the British Parliament,
hereafter mentioned, are not repealed, we will not, di
rectly or indirectly, export any merchandise or com
modity whatsoever to Great Britain, Ireland, or the West
Indies, except rice to Europe.

RESOLVED, 7, Such as are Merchants, and use the
British and India trade, will give orders, as soon as pos
sible to their Factors, Agents and Correspondents in
Great Britain and Ireland, not to ship any goods to
them, on any pretence whatever, as they cannot be re
ceived in this province, and if any Merchant residing in
Great Britain and Ireland shall, directly or indirectly,
ship any goods, wares or merchandise for America, in
order to break the said non-importation agreement, or
in any manner contravene the same, on such unworthy
conduct being well attested, it ought to be made publick,
and on the same being done, we will not from thence
forth have any commercial connections with such mer
chant.

RESOLVED, 8, That such as are owners of vessels will
give positive orders to their Captains or Masters, not to
receive on board their vessels any goods prohibited by
the said non-importation agreement, on pain of immediate
dismission from the service.

RESOLVED, 9, We will use our utmost endeavors to
improve the breed of sheep and increase their numbers to

JOURNAL OF PROVINCIAL CONGRESS. 237

the greatest extend, and to that end we will kill them as
sparingly as may be, especially those of the most profit
able kind, nor will export any to the West Indies or else
where, and those of us who are or may become over
stocked with, or can conveniently spare any sheep, will
dispose of them to our neighbors, especially to the poorer
sort, on moderate terms.

RESOLVED, 10, That we will in our several stations
encourage frugality, economy, and industry, and pro
mote agriculture, arts and the manufacture of British
America, especially that of Wool, and will discoun
tenance and discourage every species of extravagance and
dissipation, especially horse-racing and every kind of
gaming, cock fighting, exhibiting of shows, plays and
other expensive diversions and entertainments, and on
the death of any relation or friend, none of us, or any of
our families, will go into any farther mourning dress,
than a black crepe or ribbon on the arm or hat for gen
tlemen, and a black ribbon and necklace for ladies, and
we will discontinue the giving of gloves and scarfs at
funerals.

RESOLVED, n. That such as are venders of goods or
merchandize will not take advantage of the scarcity of
goods that may be occasioned by this association, but
will sell the same at the rates we have been respectively
accustomed to do for twelve months last past, and if any
venders of goods or merchandize shall sell any such
goods or merchandize on higher terms, or shall in any
manner, or by any device whatsoever, violate or depart
from this agreement, no person ought, nor will any of
us deal with any such person, or his or her Factor, Agent,
at any time thereafter, for any commodity whatsoever

RESOLVED, 12, In case any Merchant, Trader or other
persons, shall attempt to import any goods or merchan-

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dize. into this province after this day, the same shall be
forthwith sent back again, without breaking any of the
packages thereof.

RESOLVED, 13, That a committee be chosen in every
town, district and parish within this province by those
who pay toward the general tax, whose business it shall
be, attentively, to observe the conduct of all persons
touching this Association, and when it shall be made ap
pear, to the satisfaction of a majority of any such com
mittee, that any person within the limits of their appoint
ment, has violated this Association, that such majority
do forthwith cause the truth of the case to be published
in the Gazette, to the end that all such foes to the rights
of British America may be publickly known and univer
sally contemned as the enemies of American liberty, and
thenceforth we will break off all connection with him or
her.

RESOLVED, 14, That the Committee of Correspond
ence in this province do frequently inspect the entries of
the Custom House, and inform the Committee of the
other Colonies which have acceded to the Continental
Association, from time to time, of the true state thereof,
and of every other material circumstance that may occur
relative to this Association.

RESOLVED, 15, That all manufactures of this prov
ince be sold at reasonable prices, so that no undue ad
vantage be taken of a future scarcity of goods.

RESOLVED, 16, And we do farther agree and resolve
that we will have no trade, commerce, dealings, or in
tercourse, whatever, with any Colony or province in
North America which shall not accede to, or which shall
hereafter violate this Association, but will hold them as
unworthy of the rights of freemen, and as inimical to
the liberties of their country : And we do solemnly bind

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ourselves and our constituents, under the ties of virtue,
honour and love of our country, to adhere to this Asso
ciation, until parts of the several acts of Parliament,
passed since the close of the last war, as impose or con
tinue duties upon tea, wine, molasses, syrups, paneles,
coffee, sugar, pimento, indigo, foreign paper, glass, and
painter's colours imported into America, and extend the
powers of the Admiralty Courts beyond their ancient
limits, deprive American subjects of trial by jury, au
thorize the Judge certificate to indemnify the prosecution
from damages that he might otherwise be liable to, from
a trial by his peers, require oppressive security from
claimants of ships, or goods seized before he is allowed
to defend his property are repealed; and until that part
of the act of the 12 Geo., 3 ch., 24, entitled, "An Act for
the better securing his Majesty's Dock-yards, Magazines,
Ships, Ammunition and Stores," by which any person
charged with committing any of the offences therein
described in America, may be tried within any shire or
country within the realm is repealed, and until the four
acts passed in the last session of Parliament, viz : That
for stopping the port and blocking up the_ harbour of
Boston; that for altering the charter and government
of the Massachusetts Bay — and that which is entitled,
"An Act for the better administration, &c., and that for
extending the limits of Quebec, &c," are repealed, and
until the two acts passed in the present session of Par
liament, the one entitled, "A Bill to restrain the Trade
and Commerce of the Colonies of New Jersey, Pennsyl
vania, Maryland, Virginia and South Carolina, to Great
Britain, Ireland, and the British Islands in the West
Indies, under certain conditions and limitations," and the
other, "An Act commonly called the Fishery Bill."

By order of the Congress.

A true copy from the Minutes.

. WALTON, Secretary.

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FRIDAY, 7th July, 1775.

The following is his Excellency's Answer to the Mes
sage of this Congress :

"To Stephen Drayton, Esq., and the other Gentlemen
who waited on the Governor:

GENTLEMEN — I have taken the opinion of his Maj
esty's Council relative to the request made by the gentle
men who have assembled together by the name of a
Provincial Congress, and must premise that I cannot
consider that meeting as Constitutional ; but as the re
quest is expressed in such loyal and dutiful terms, and
the end proposed being such as every good man must
most ardently wrish for, I will certainly appoint a Day of
Fasting and Prayer, to be observed throughout this prov
ince.

JA WRIGHT.
Savannah, the 7th of July, 1775."

A motion was made and seconded, that the thanks of
this Congress be given to his Excellency the Governor,
for his answer to the Message of the Congress, and his
ready compliance with their request, which being put,
unanimously passed the affirmative. Ordered — That Dr.
Zubly, John Smith and Joseph Clay be a committee for
the purpose.

A motion was made and seconded, that five persons be
chosen to represent this province in the Continental Con
gress, appointed to be held at the city of Philadelphia,
on the loth May last, and the question being put, it
passed unanimously in the affirmative.

The Congress then proceeded to the choice, when John
Houstoun and Archibald Bulloch, Esq's, the Rev. Dr.

JOURNAL OF PROVINCIAL CONGRESS. 241

Zubly, Noble Wimberly Jones and Lyman Hall, Esq's,
were duly elected. Dr. Zubly expressed his surprise at
being chosen, and said that he thought himself for many
reasons a very improper person ; but the choice was in
sisted upon, and the Doctor declared he would by no
means go, unless he had the approbation of his congrega
tion ; whereupon Noble Wimberly Jones and John Hous-
toun, Esqrs., were appointed to request their consent.

RESOLVED, THEREFORE, That the said John Houstoun
and Archibald Bulloch, Esq's, the Rev. Dr. Zubly, Noble
Wimberly Jones and Lyman Hall, Esq's, be the Dele
gates of this province to represent the same in said Con
tinental Congress, and that any three of them be a
quorum.

By order of the Congress.
A true copy of the Minutes.

GEO. WALTON, Secretary.

A motion was made and seconded, that a Secret Com
mittee be appointed, which being agreed to, it was re
solved that the President do nominate seven person to
be that committee, whose business it shall be, to be vigi
lant and active in the discovery of all matters which may
affect the public, and that they shall have right to lay all
such intelligence and information before the President of
this Congress, and in its recess, before the President of
the Council of Safety, in order that the evil designs of
wicked men may be early frustrated.

A motion was made and seconded, that the Congress
do petition the King upon the present unhappy situation
of affairs, which being agreed to, it was ordered that Dr.
Zubly do prepare and bring in the same.

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A motion was made and seconded, that a letter be
forthwith wrote to the President of the Continental Con
gress, giving him an account of the proceedings of this
Congress, which being agreed to, it was ordered that
Dr. Zubly, John Smith, William Young, William Le
Conte, and William Gibbons, Esqrs., be a Committee for
that purpose.

John Walton, Esq., who was elected as well from
Wrightsborough township, as for the town and district
of Augusta, came in and took his seat for the former.

A motion \vas made and seconded, that an address be
presented to his Excellency the Governor by this Con
gress, which being agreed to, it was ordered, that Dr.
Zubly, Basil Cowper, John Walton, Joseph Clay, and
Edward Telfair be a Committee to draw up the same.

SATURDAY, July 8, 1/75.

That this Congress are of opinion that
the paper delivered into this Congress on the second day
of its meeting, ought not to have been entitled or dressed
in the form of resolves, but rather as recommendations,
or in nature of a petition or address to this Congress.

RESOLVED, Nevertheless, from the desire this Con
gress hath to promote union and concord among our
selves, and as it does not appear that the said paper was
intended to be considered as coming from a distinct and
independent body, that, therefore, the matter contained
in the same (being such as is in the general agreeable to
us) shall be duly considered and attended to.

By order of the Congress.

A true copy from the Minutes.

GEO. WAI/TON, Secretary.

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A motion was made and seconded, that a sum not ex
ceeding ten thousand pounds sterling be provided, to de
fray the necessary services of this Province, in the present
alarming and distracted state of affairs, which passed
unanimously in the affirmative.

A motion was then made and seconded, that the Con
gress resolve itself into a Committee of the Whole, to
consider ways and means for raising and sinking the
said sum of ten thousand pounds sterling, which being
agreed to, the Congress resolved itself into a Committee
accordingly.

The President having resumed the chair, Mr. Clay,
from the Committee of the whole Congress, reported
that they had entered upon the consideration of ways
and means, had made some progress therein, and de
sired leave to sit again.

The President reported to the Congress that he had, in
obedience to the resolution yesterday, nominated seven
persons to be a Secret Committee.

Dr. Zubly, who was ordered to prepare and bring in a
petition to his Majesty, reported that he had done so,
and produced a paper containing the same, which he de
livered in to the President; and the said paper being read
and approved of, it was resolved that the President do
sign the same.

A motion was made and seconded, that a Committee
of Intelligence be appointed, which being agreed to, it
was ordered that William Young, David Zubly, Stephen
Drayton, Daniel Roberts, John Glen, Edward Telfair,
William Ewren, Joseph Clay, and George Walton, Es
quires, be that Committee.

William Young, Esquire, of the Committee appointed

244 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

to write a letter to the President of the Continental Con
gress, reported that they had done so, and delivered in a
paper to the President, containing the same, which being
read and approved of, it was resolved that the President
do sign the same, and that it be forthwith sent.

MONDAY, loth of July, 1775.
The following resolves were unanimously entered into :

WHEREAS, By the unrelenting fury of a despotic^
Ministry, and with a view to enforce the most oppressive
acts of a venal and corrupted Parliament, an army of
mercenaries, under an unfeeling Commander, have ac
tually begun a civil war in America.

AND WHEREAS, The apparent iniquity and cruelty o:
these obstructive measures have however had this good
effect, to unite men of all ranks in the common cause.

AND WHEREAS, To consult means of safety, and the
method of obtaining redress, the good people of this prov
ince of Georgia have thought proper to appoint a Pro
vincial Congress. The Delegates met at the said Con
gress, nowr assembled from every part of the province,
besides adopting the resolutions of the late Continental
Congress, find it prudent to enter into such other resolu
tions as may best express their own sense, and the sense
of their constituents, on the present unhappy situation of
things, and therefore thought fit and necessary to resolve
as follows :

RESOLVED, That we were born free, have all the feel
ings of men, and are entitled to all the natural rights of
mankind.

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RESOLVED, That by birth or incorporation we are all
Britons, and whatever Britons may claim as their birth
right is also ours.

RESOLVED, That in the British Empire, to which we
belong, the constitution is superior to every man, or set
of men, whatever, and that it is a crime of the deepest dye
in any instance to impair or take it away, or deprive the
meanest subject of its benefits.

RESOLVED, That, that part of the American continent
which we inhabit was originally granted by the Crown
and the charter expressly from Charles the 2nd, makes
its constitution dependence on the Crown only.

RESOLVED, That those who now would subject all
America, or this province, to dependency on the Crown
and Parliament, are guilty of a very dangerous innovation
which in time will appear as injurious to the Crown
as it is inconsistent with the liberty of the American sub
ject.

RESOLVED, That by the law of nature and the British
Constitution, no man can legally be deprived of his prop
erty without his consent, given by himself or his repre
sentative.

RESOLVED, That the Acts of the British Parliament,
for rasing a perpetual revenue on the Americans, by lay
ing a tax on them without their consent, and contrary to
their protestations, are diametrically opposite to every
idea of property, to the spirit of the constitution, and at
one stroke deprive this vast continent of all liberty and
prosperity, and as such must be detested by every well
wisher of Great Britain and America.

RESOLVED, That subsequent laws made with a view
to enforce these acts, viz : the Boston Port Bill, and

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Alteration of their Charter, the Act to cany beyond Sea
for Trial, and what refines upon every species of cruelty,
the Fishery Bill, are of such a complexion that we can say
nothing about them for want of words to express our ab
horrence and .detestation.

RESOLVED, That the loyalty, patience and prudence of
the inhabitants of New England, under their unparalleled
pressure, having been construed into timidity, and dread
of regular troops, a civil war, in support of acts extreme
ly oppressive in themselves, hath actually been begun, and
that there is too much reason to believe that plans have
been in agitation big with everything horrible to other
provinces, plans as rash, barbarous and destructive as the
cause which they are intended to serve.

RESOLVED, That in these times of extreme dangei%
our Assembly not being permitted to sit, we must have
either been a people without all thought or councilor have
assembled, as we now are, in Provincial Congress, to con
sult upon measures which, under God, may prove the
means of the perpetual union with the Mother Country,
and tend to the honour, freedom and safety of both.

RESOLVED, That this province bears all true allegiance
to our own rightful Sovereign, King George III, and
always will and ought to bear it agreeable to the constitu
tion of Great Britain, by virtue of which only the King
is now our Sovereign, and which equally binds Majesty
and Subjects.

RESOLVED, That we are truly sensible how much our
safety and happiness depends on a constitutional connec
tion with Great Britain, and that nothing but the being
deprived of the privileges and natural rights of Britons
could ever make the thought of a separation otherwise
than intolerable.

JOURNAL OF PROVINCIAL CONGRESS. 247

RESOLVED, That in case his Majesty, or his success
ors, shall at any time hereafter, make any requisition to
the good people of this province, by his Representatives,
it will be just and right that such sums should be granted
as the nature of the service may require, and the ability
and situation of this province will admit of.

RESOLVED, That this province join with the provinces
of America now met by delegates in Continental Con
gress, and that John Houstoun and Archibald Bulloch,
Esqs., the Rev. Dr. Zubly, Lyman Hall and Noble Wim-
berly Jones, Esqrs., be the delegates from this province
for that purpose, and that any three constitute a quorum
for that purpose.

RESOLVED, That a committee be appointed whose
duty it shall be to see to it that the resolutions of the
Continental and Provincial Congress be duly observed,
and that every person who shall act in opposition thereto
have his name transmitted to the Continental Congress,
and his misdeeds be published in every American paper.

RESOLVED, That with all such persons, except the in
dispensable duties that we owe all mankind, (bad men
and enemies not excepted), we will have no dealings nor
connection, and we extend this our resolution also to all
such persons or corporations in Great Britain who have
shown themselves enemies to America,

RESOLVED, That we will do what in us lies to pre
serve and promote the peace and good order of this prov
ince : and should any person become an innocent sufferer
on account of these grievances, we will do whatever we
justly may for his relief and assistance.

RESOLVED, That in such calamitous times as the pres
ent every possible indulgence ought to be given to honest

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debtors; that it would be ungenerous (unless there ap
pear intention of fraud) in any Gentleman of the Law
to fee without previous notice, and any person so feed
may apply to the Committee, and should it appear to
them that the creditor is in no danger of losing his money,
or can be properly secured, they shall interpose their
friendly offices to persuade him to drop the prosecution,
and every prosecuter that shall appear to take advantage
of the confusion of the times to distress his debtor, ought
to be publickly pointed out and held in abhorrence.

RESOLVED., That notwithstanding in a late Bill for re
straining the trade of several provinces in America, this
province is excepted, we declare that we look upon this
exception rather as an insult than a favour, as being
meant to break the union of provinces, and as being
grounded on the supposition that the inhabitants of such
excepted province can be base enough to turn the oppres
sion of America into a mean advantage.

By order of the Congress.

A true copy from the Minutes.

GEORGE WALTON, Secretary-.

TUESDAY, July n, 17/5-

John Houstoun and Noble Wimberly Jones, Esqrs.,
appointed to request the consent of Dr. Zubly's congrega
tion for their permission for him to go to Philadelphia,
reported that they had done so, and that the said congre
gation had voted that they were willing to spare their
minister for a time, for the good of the common cause.

JOURNAL OF PROVINCIAL CONGRESS. 249

Dr. Zubly then declared he was willing to go, and

: Congress for so signal a mark
confidence.

thanked the Congress for so signal a mark of honour and

Air. Clay, from the Committee appointed to draw up
an address to his Excellency, the Governor, from this
Congress, reported that they had done so, and delivered
it in to the President : which was ordered to be read, —
and is as follows :

To His Excellency, Sir JAMES WRIGHT, Baronet, Captain-
General and Goi'ernor-in-Chicf, in and over Jiis Afai-
esty's Province of Georgia, Chancellor and Vice-Presi
dent of the same.

MAY IT PLEASE YOUR EXCELLENCY : — \Ye. his Maj
esty's dutiful and loyal subjects, the Delegates of this
Province, in Provincial Congress met, beg leave to ad
dress your Excellency.

In these very critical and alarming times, the good
people of this Province find themselves under an absolute
necessity to take some measures for the security and pres
ervation of their liberties, and every thing that is near
and dear to them ; and they have accordingly chosen a
large number of persons to meet together at Savannah,
to consult on the means to obtain redress, under our many
and very heavy grievances. These, being accordingly
met, (to be distinguished from the usual representation,)
have styled themselves a Provincial Congress, and from
the number and character of their names, which your Ex
cellency may see in our last Gazette, your Excellency will
be convinced the Province was never more fully repre
sented in any Assembly; though possibly this measure
never would have taken place, had we not, from several
successive prorogations or adjournments, too much reason
to fear your Excellency had received very strong instruc-

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tions not to suffer the Assembly to enter into any meas
ures to secure the rights of America, or even to petition
for relief, unless in terms which would have been giving
up the rights of, and fixing lasting disgrace upon, the pe
titioners.

Although there is no doubt but a great majority of the
inhabitants of this Province always looked upon the claim
of Parliament to take away the property of Americans as
illegal and oppressive, yet, from a variety of causes, not
unknown to your Excellency, this Province in the Ameri
can chain has hitherto been the defaulting link. "We have
now joined with the other provinces in the Continental
Congress, and have sent a petition to his Majesty, ap
pointed delegates to the American Congress, and entered
into such resolutions — which we mean inviolably to ad
here to — as will convince the friends and foes of America
that we would not live unworthy of the name of Britons,
or labour under the suspicion of being unconcerned for
the rights and freedom of America. Extracts of some
letters which are inserted in Parliamentary proceedings
widely differ from what must appear to every unpreju
diced person to be the real state of the Province.

We are not acquainted with an individual in Georgia
that looks upon the claims of Parliament as just, and all
men speak with abhorrence of the measures made use of
to enforce them. Our fellow-subjects who formerly en
tered a dissent which we find was transmitted to the min
ister in terms that bespeak the great pleasure it gave the
transmitter, now generally say that they never differed
from America as to reality of grievances, but only in the
mode of obtaining redress.

Though candour may allow these mutilated extracts
laid before Parliament, they were probably rather design
ed by the minister to screen himself and justify his own

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measures, than to give a just and true account of what
information he might have received, yet we cannot help
observing, the general purport of these letters seem to
have a much greater regard to the designs of the minister,
than to give an impartial account of the real state of
things. Other Provinces, no doubt, if they find them
selves mentioned in any part of them, will view them in
what light they may think fit ; but, as to any prejudicial
informations they may contain against many persons in
this Province, while it is not to be expected that they will
give up their feelings as private men, your Excellency
may be assured we shall always pay due respect to His
Majesty's representative, and shall with great pleasure
acknowledge every service your Excellency may hereaf
ter render to Great Britain and America, whose interest
we know, and whose connection we wish to be forever in
separable. Your Excellency may be assured, these are ob
jects which we have greatly at heart, and shall ever do
what in us lies, towards a reconciliation with our parent
state, on constitutional principles, as well as endeavour to
preserve the peace and good order of the province

RESOLVED, That the foregoing address be signed by
the President, and be presented to his Excellency, the
Governor, and that Stephen Drayton, Edward Telfair,
William Le Conte, John Walton, George Houstoun, and
Philip Box be a Committee to present the same.

WEDNESDAY, July 12, 1775-

The Congress resolved itself into a Committee of the
\Vhole, to take into consideration ways and means to
raise and sink ten thousand pounds sterling; and after
some time spent therein, the President resumed the Chair*.

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RESOLVED, That the Congress being a full representa
tion of the whole Province, the members of the same,
their constituents, and all others resident or holding prop
erty within the same, are bound to contribute by an equal
and general tax, towards the sinking' the ten thousand
pounds.

RESOLVED, That this Congress, while sitting, and the
Council of Safety, in its recess, have power to issue cer
tificates, from time to time, as occasion shall require, to
the amount of ten thousand pounds sterling, and that all
such certificates shall be signed by the treasurers, and at
least three of the members of the Council of Safety.

RESOLVED, That any person wrho shall not receive any
such certificate in payment, will be guilty of a breach of
the public faith, and ought to be considered as an enemy
to the Province, and treated accordingly.

RESOLVED, That the said certificates be sunk in three
years after a reconciliation shall take place between Great
Britain and the Colonies.

THURSDAY, July 13, 1775.

RESOLVED, That this Congress do approve of and
adopt the Association entered into at Savannah on the
fifth day of June last past viz. :

Association unanimously entered into by the Proz'incial
Congress, at Savannah, in- Georgia, on Thursday, the
ijth of July, 1775.

GEORGIA, being persuaded that the salvation of the
rights and liberties of America depend, under God, on

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the firm union of the inhabitants in its vigorous prosecu
tion of the measures necessary for its safety, and con
vinced of the necessity of preventing the anarchy and con
fusion which attend the dissolution of the powers of gov
ernment, we, the freemen, freeholders and inhabitants of the
Province of Georgia, being greatly alarmed at the avowed
design of the Ministry to raise a revenue in America, and
shocked by the bloody scene now acting in the Massachu
setts Bay, do, in the most solemn manner, resolve never
to become slaves ; and do associate, under all the ties of
religion, and honor, and love to our country, to adopt and
endeavor to carry into execution whatever may be recom
mended by the Continental Congress, or resolved upon by
our Provincial Convention, appointed for preserving our
constitution and opposing the execution of the several ar
bitrary and oppressive acts of the British Parliament, un
til a reconciliation between Great Britain and America,
on constitutional principles, which we most ardently de
sire, can be obtained ; and that we will in all things follow
the advice of our General Committee, appointed respect
ing the purposes aforesaid, — the preservation of peace
and good order, and the safety of individuals and private
property.

RESOLVED, That John Smith, Basil Cowper. George
Houstoun, Joseph Clay, William Young, Philip Box,
Seth John Cuthbert, William O'Bryan, George W^alton,
William Le Conte, William Gibbons, Samuel Elbert, Ed
ward1 Telfair and Oliver Bowen, be a Committee to pre
sent the Association to all the inhabitants of the Town
and District of Savannah to be signed ; in doing which,
expedition is particularly recommended, and an account
of all who decline signing shall be returned to the Gen
eral Committee.

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FRIDAY, July 14, 1775.

A motion was made and seconded, that a Committee
be appointed to report their opinion, who shall be quali
fied to vote for delegates to sit in future Congresses, and
the most equal method of representation; and the same
being agreed to, a Committee was appointed accordingly.

Committee : Stephen Drayton, John Glen, and Joseph
Clay, Esqrs.

RESOLVED, That in every case where a summons shall
be applied for, the magistrate to whom such application
shall be made do in the first place, and before the issuing
of such summons, give notice thereof, either by personal
information, message, or letter, to the party defendant,
and also use his best endeavour to compromise and settle
the matter; and unless the defendant has discovered cir
cumstances of fraud or delay, and is ready and willing to
give security for the debt, and shall actually offer to do
so, payable in a reasonable time, no such summons ought
to be issued. And in case a warrant in a civil case shall
be applied for, the same ought not to be granted, unless
there appear, to the satisfaction of the magistrate, that
there are good and sufficient grounds besides the plain
tiff's oath to apprehend the defendant means to abscond ;
but the same method ought to be observed as is recom
mended respecting summons.

Mr. Drayton, from the Committee appointed to report
their opinion who shall be qualified to vote for delegates
to sit in future Congresses, reported as the opinion of
that Committee, that every man contributing towards the
general tax, shall be qualified to vote as delegates in fu
ture Congresses, and the following proportion will be the
most equal representation, viz. : The Town and District

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of Savannah shall have seventeen members; District of
Little Ogeechee, three ; Vernonburgh, two ; Acton, two ;
Sea Islands, three; Goshen and Abercorn, two; Parish
of St. Matthew, seven; St. George, nine; St. Paul, nine;
St. Philip, seven; St. John, twelve; St. Andrew, nine;
St. David, three; St. Patrick, two; St. Thomas, two;
St. Mary, two; St. James, two; Ceded Lands, three;
and that the president and thirty-four members do con
stitute a Congress to proceed upon business.

RESOLVED, That the foregoing report be approved of,
and that delegates be elected by the persons and in the
proportion therein mentioned.

RESOLVED, That the following form of delegation be
recommended to the inhabitants of the several parishes
and districts throughout the Province, to prevent clashing
and unequal powers being given by different parishes and
districts, viz :

GEORGIA : — The affairs of the Continent of America
being now brought to a truly alarming and critical situa
tion, and there being no other method left, but that the
whole body of the people unite as one, in opposing such
acts as tend utterly to destroy the liberty, property, and
birthright of America ; and it having been thought neces
sary and convenient, in order to consult on proper ways
and means for our Mutual security, to assemble and con
vene the people in each colony and Province, by their
representatives, into one body or council, styled a Pro
vincial Congress, who shall act in all cases whatsoever
for the good of the common cause :

Now, therefore, be it known that we, the inhabitants

of Parish (or district), being met together in

order to choose such men as are capable of the important
trust, do choose A, B, C, D, &c., being the number de-

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termined on in the Provincial Congress, held at Savan
nah, 4th of July, 1775, to represent us in the Provincial
Congress, to be held at said town of Savannah, on the
fourth of December next. And we do require you, the
said A, B, C, to do, transact, join, and concur with the
other delegates of this Province, so sitting as above
recited, on all things, as shall appear eligible and fit at
this alarming time, for the preservation and defence of
our rights and liberties ; and we further empower you to
choose other delegates, if in your wisdom you think
proper ; or if any requisition in that case should be made,
by the Grand Continental Congress, in order to join or
succeed the delegates in that Congress, now chosen by
the people of this Province. And we do bind ourselves
solemnly under the sacred ties of religion, virtue, and
honour, and love of our country, to abide by, enforce and
carry into execution, or endeavour so to do, at the risk
and peril of our lives and fortunes, whatsoever you with
the other delegates shall resolve and agree upon to be
necessary for the well doing and preservation of the
violated rights of this Province and the Continent in
general.

Signed by us this day of !775-

SATURDAY, July i5th, 1775.

A motion was made and seconded, that a Committee
be appointed to report their opinion with respect to the
better governing the Militia of this Province; which
being agreed to, a Committee was appointed accordingly,
to wit : Stephen Drayton, Samuel Elbert, Dr. Brownson,
and Peter Tarlin.

A motion was made and seconded, that a Committee

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be appointed to communicate to the inhabitants of this
Province an account of the disputes subsisting between
Great Britain and the colonies, and also the proceedings
of this Congress; and the same being agreed to, it was
ordered that the Rev. Dr. Zubly, Noble Wymberly Jones,
William Young, and George Walton, be a Committee for
that purpose.

RESOLVED, That this Congress shall expire on the
2Oth day of August next ; that a new election be made
at such times between the twentieth day of August and
first of September, as the inhabitants of the several
parishes and districts (except the town and district of
Savannah) shall think fit respectively, and that the mem
bers so elected, with those who shall afterwards be chosen
for the town and district of Savannah, do meet in Gen
eral Congress at Savannah, on the fourth day of Decem
ber next, or sooner, if the Council of Safety shall think it
expedient to summon them.

RESOLVED, That the members of this Congress use
every endeavour to give as public notice of elections as
possible, and that each parish and district shall, at the
time of such elections, likewise choose a sufficient num
ber, as a parochial or district committee, to enforce the
different resolves of the Continental and Provincial Con
gresses.

RESOLVED, That the inhabitants of the town and dis
trict of Savannah do meet at Savannah on Friday, the
fifteenth day of September next, to choose seventeen dele-
•ates to represent them in Provincial Congress.

s

RESOLVED, That the several delegates for the town and
district of Savannah, or a majority of them, together with
all other delegates who shall happen to be in town, shall
be a General Committee for the Province ; that they shall

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have power to superintend, direct, and advise all the Pa
rochial or District Committees, and, in case of difficulty,
to inform them of their duty. And any person who shall
apprehend himself aggrieved by the decision of any of
the Parochial or District Committees, may appeal to the
said General Committee, who shall hear his case, and do
justice according to the spirit and intention of this Con
gress; and in case such appellant shall still be dissatisfied,
he may lay his case before the next Congress, provided
there be no delay occasioned by any such appeal ; but the
sentence of each Committee shall take effect immediately
after being pronounced.

MONDAY, July 17, 1/75.

RESOLVED, That the Reverend Mr. Haddon Smith, by
twice refusing to comply with the request of this Con
gress, and to join on a day of fasting and prayer ap
pointed by the Continental Congress to be observed
throughout all America, besides, the day appointed by his
Excellency the Governor, at the request of this Congress,
has given too much reason to believe he does not wish
that the happy event mentioned in the American Procla
mation may take place, and that the said Mr. Haddon
Smith has thereby incurred the censure of this Congress,
and ought to be considered as unfriendly to America.

RESOLVED, nemine contradicente, That the delegates
appointed by this Congress to go to Philadelphia, do ap
ply to the Continental Congress to incorporate this Prov
ince with the United Provinces of North America, and
that they pledge the faith of us and our constituents to
contribute an adequate part of the expenses which have

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or may accrue in defence of the violated rights of
America.

RESOLVED, That the Council of Safety have full power,
upon every emergency, during the recess of Congress, to
give such information, and propose such measures, by
way of advice, to our Continental delegates, as the cir
cumstances of the case may require, and they shall think
conducive to the public good.

RESOLVED, That it be strongly recommended to the
friends of America in this Province, that they use their
utmost endeavours to preserve peace and good order, and
to cultivate harmony with one another, and always to
avoid national reflections, which can only tend to produce
divisions and jealousies among the inhabitants.

RESOLVED, That this Congress do adjourn to the nine
teenth day of August next, and that the General Com
mittee have power to call it at Savannah sooner, if they
upon any emergency shall deem it expedient for the good
of the Province.

By order of the Congress.

A true copy from the minutes.

GEORGE WALTON, Secretary.

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ADDRESS OF THE COMMITTEE APPOINTED
BY THE PROVINCIAL CONGRESS.

SAVANNAH, July 2$th, 17/5.
To the Inhabitants of the Province of Georgia:

FELLOW-COUNTRYMEN — We are directed to transmit
to you an account of the present state of American affairs,
as well as the proceedings of the late Provincial Con
gress.

It is with great sorrow we are to acquaint you, that
what our fears suggested, but our reason thought impos
sible, is actually come to pass.

A civil war in America is begun. Several engagements,
have already happened. The friends and foes of America
have been equally disappointed. The friends of America
were in hopes British troops could not be induced to
slay their brethren. It is, however, done, and the cir
cumstances are such, as must be an everlasting blot on
their character for humanity and generosity. An unfeel
ing commander has found means to inspire his troops
with the same evil spirit that possesseth himself. After
the starving, helpless, innocent inhabitants of Boston de
livered up their arms, and received his promise that they
might leave that virtuous, devoted town, he is said to
have broke his word ; and the wretched inhabitants are
still kept, to fall a prey to disease, famine, and confine
ment. If there are powers which abhor injustice and op
pression, it may be hoped such perfidy cannot go long
unpunished.

But the enemies of America have been no less disap
pointed. Nothing so contemptible, in their eyes, like the
rabble of an American militia; nothing more improbable

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than that they would dare to look regulars in the face,
or stand a single fire. By this time they must have felt
how much they were mistaken. In every engagement the
Americans appeared with a bravery worthy of men that
fight for the liberties of their oppressed country. Their
success has been remarkable; the number of the slain
and wounded on every occasion exceeds theirs, and the
advantages they gained are the more honourable, because,
with a patience that scarce has an example, they bore
every act of injustice and insult, till their lives were at
tacked, and then gave the fullest proof that the man of
calmness and moderation in counsel is usually also the
most intrepid and courageous in battle. You will doubt
less lament with us the hundreds that died in their coun
tries' cause : but does it not call for greater sorrow that
thousands of British soldiers sought and found their
deaths when they were active to enslave their brethren
and their country? However irritating all these proceed
ings, yet so unnatural is this quarrel, that every good man
must wish and pray that it may soon cease ; that the in
jured rights of America may be vindicated by milder
means; and that no more blood may be shed, unless it
be of those who fomented, and mean to make an advan
tage of those unhappy divisions. From the proceedings
of the Congress, a copy of which accompanies the present,
you will be convinced that a reconciliation on honour
able principles is an object which your delegates never
lost sight of. We have sent an humble and manly
petition to his Majesty ; addressed his representative, our
Governor; provided, as far as in our power, for internal
quiet and safety; and delegates will soon attend the Gen
eral Congress, to assist and co-operate in any measure
that shall be thought necessary for the saving of America.
His Excellency, at. our request, having appointed the
1 9th inst. as a day of humiliation, and news being after
wards received that the Continental Congress had recom-

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mended the 2Oth inst. to be observed as such, both days
have been observed with a becoming solemnity; and we
humbly hope many earnest prayers have been presented
to the Father of Mercies on that day, through this ex
tensive continent, and that He has heard the cries of the
destitute, and will not despise their prayers. You will
permit us most earnestly to recommend to you a steady
perseverance in the cause of Liberty, and that yon will
use all possible caution not to say or do anything un
worthy of so glorious a cause; to promote frugality,
peace and good order, and in the practice of every social
and religious duty, patiently to wait the return of that
happy day, when we may quietly sit under our vine and
fig-tree, and no man make us afraid.

J. J. ZUBLY,
N. W. JONES,
GEORGE WALTON.

The folloiving is a copy of a petition from the inhabitants
of Georgia, which was presented to the King on
Friday, .October 28, by Governor JOHNSTONE, and of
letters which accompanied it.

SAVANNAH, July 14, 1775.
To George Johnstone, Esq.:

SIR — It is with singular pleasure that I am desired to
transmit the accompanying papers to you, sensible that
in a cause where the essential rights of so many millions
are concerned, no endeavours on your part will be want
ing to give them their full effect.

The many proofs which the people of this Province
had of your magnanimity, justice and disinterested in-

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tegrity in establishing the neighboring colony of West
Florida, have rendered your name respected throughout
America, and your subsequent conduct has endeared you
still further to every lover of mankind in the Eastern and
Western world.

These motives have determined the Congress in the ap
plication they now make. I am sensible, if the same coun
sels prevail, the task of conveying such disagreeable
truths to the throne must prove very painful ; but we be
lieve there is no person who would undertake the office
with less reluctance, or execute it with more becoming
duty and respect to his Majesty.

I am, &c.,

SAVANNAH, GEORGIA, July 14, 1775.

SIR — When turbulent and wicked minds are employed
solely to raise commotions in the State and disturb the
tranquillity of the subject; when by their baneful in
fluence, life, property, and freedom are inhumanly in
vaded, and the innocence and loyalty of thousands are
unjustly questioned, we, the inhabitants of Georgia, by
a just delegation from the different parishes being now
convened in Congress in this town, have resolved to ad
dress a dutiful petition, setting forth our grievances and
the bad tendency of the many wicked and treacherous
proceedings against this Continent that have passed since
the year 1/63.

Although we know the fate of all other petitions on
this head, and cannot flatter ourselves that we should
meet with one different; yet, as the right of petitioning
is the subject's, we beg leave to enclose this our prayer
and remonstrance to you, hoping and trusting, on the

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noble sentiments you entertain and support in favour of
us, much injured Americans, that, countenanced by one
of your great abilities, it may approach the throne.

We assure you, Sir, we are, and always were, firmly
attached to his Majesty's family, nor can any thing shake
our integrity. But when, by evil and wicked ministers,
our birthright as Englishmen shall be violated, that in
tegrity must urge us to hand down to our children a
right so invaluable.

We conceive our immediate dependence on the crown
can by no means hinder our doing that indispensable
duty, in joining with the rest of America against acts
that tend to enslave a people whose loyalty and faith were
never even suspected, until the actions of the times wanted
an excuse.

We have the honour to be. Sir,

Your most obedient and very humble servants.

WILLIAM YOUNG, EDWARD TELFAIR,

DAVID ZUBLY, JR., DANIEL ROBERTS,

JOHN GLEN, WM. EWEN,
STEPH. DRAYTON,

A Committee of Intelligence.
To George Johnstone, Esq.

PETITION TO THE KING.

To the King's Most Excellent Majesty: —

MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY: — Though we bring
up the rear of American petitioners, and. from the fate
of so many petitions presented to your Majesty, from
America, your great city of London, and others of your

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European subjects, have a most melancholy prospect, we
still hope that He by whom kings rule, and to whom
monarchs are accountable, will incline you to pay some
regard to our most humble and faithful representation.
In times like these, when the edge of present feeling is
blunted by the expectation of calamities still greater, we
must take the liberty to speak before we die. We would
acquaint our Sovereign with things which greatly affect
his interest. \Ye would endeavour to waken the feeling
and pity of our common father.

Your Majesty is the rightful sovereign of the most im
portant empire in the universe.

The blessings of Providence on your arms have put a
country under you of greater importance and extent than
several kingdoms in Europe. In this large extent of ter
ritory, by some late acts, popery is not only tolerated
(which we conceive would have been an act of justice),
but an indulgence lias been granted, little short of a full
establishment, to a religion which is equally injurious
to the rights of sovereign and of mankind. French and
arbitrary laws have there by authority taken place of the
just and mild British Constitution, and all this has been
done with a professed and avowed design to overawe
your Majesty's Ancient Protestant and loyal subjects,
some of whom had no small share in the merit of that
conquest. Acts to raise a perpetual revenue on the Ameri
cans without their consent have been enacted, which, at
one stroke, turn all your American subjects into slaves,
and deprive them of that right which the most oppres
sive taskmaster does not deny to the servant bought with
his money. Experience must now have shown, as it will
clearer, should these acts be enforced, that instead of
increasing the revenue, or lessening the burden of your
European subjects, they can only serve to increase their
taxation. Laws which we conceive fraught with so much

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injustice have been attempted to be enforced by equal
cruelty, and whenever we thought ourselves at the height
of our troubles, your Majesty's ministers have stretched
their unhappy ingenuity to find out new methods of dis
tress, and, it is believed, methods have been more than
thought of, too shocking to human nature, to be even
named in the list of grievances suffered under a British
king.

The goodness of God hath made your Majesty the
father of a very numerous issue, on whom we place the
pleasing hopes of a protestant succession; but your Maj
esty's arms in America now every day make mothers
childless, and children fatherless. The blood of your
subjects has been shed with pleasure rather than with
pity. For an act which amounted to no more, even under
the \vorst construction, than an irregular zeal for con
stitutional liberty, and without any step taken to find out
the supposed guilty persons, the capital of your American
dominions has been blocked up, deprived of its trade, and
its poor of subsistence. Thousands, confessedly inno
cent, have been starved, ruined, driven from, or kept like
prisoners, in their own habitations ; their cries and blood
innocently shed have undoubtedly, and daily, reached to
His ears who hateth injustice and oppression.

Believe, us, great sir, America is not divided ; all men
(crown officers not excepted) speak of these acts and
measures with disapprobation, and if there has been some
difference of opinion as to the mode of relief, the rigorous
experiments which your ministry thought fit to try on
the Americans have been the most effectual means to
convince these of the iniquitous designs of your min
istry, and to unite them all as in a common cause. Your
Majesty's ministers after introducing the deamon of dis
cord into your empire, and driving America to the brink
of despair, place all their dignity in measures obstinately

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pursued, because they were once wantonly taken. They
hearkened to no information but what represented Amer
icans as rebels or cowards. Time will every day make it
clearer how much they were infatuated and mistaken.
Too long, we must lament, have these men imposed on
your paternal affection. Deign now, most gracious Prince,
in their room, to hearken to the cries of your loyal and
affectionate subjects of this extensive Continent; let the
goodness of your heart interpose between weak or wicked
ministers, and millions of loyal and affectionate subjects.
No longer let the sword be stained with the blood of
your own children; recall your troops and fleets; and
if any misunderstanding remains, let the Americans be
heard, and justice and equity take place. Let us be ruled
according to the known principles of our excellent Con
stitution, and command the last shilling of our property,
and the last drop of our blood in your service.

Uncertain as to the event of this our humble represen
tation, it affords us a relief that we may, unrestrained,
apply to the great and merciful Sovereign of the whole
earth, who will not despise the prayer of the oppressed ;
and to Him we most ardently pray that, the wicked being
removed from before the king, the king's throne may be
established in righteousness.

By order of the Congress, at Savannah, this i4th day
of July.

A. BULLOCH, President.

At this session Archibald Bulloch, John Houstoun,
Noble Wymberly Jones, George Walton and John
Joachim Zubly were elected by the Provincial Congress
to represent Georgia in the Continental Congress at Phil
adelphia. Mr. Zubly at first took his seat in congress,
but, through weakness rather than dishonesty, betrayed
his trust and became a loyalist.

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It was also provided that an election should be held in
all the parishes and districts at such time after the ad
journment of the congress, not later than the first day of
September, for delegates to a new Provincial Congress,
as the people of each Parish or district might deem fit,
and that the delegates thus elected should meet in Prov
incial Congress at Savannah on the fourth day of Decem
ber following, or sooner if the Council of Safety should
deem it advisable. When the elections were held persons
favorable to the contentions of the colonies were elected
in every parish and district. Because their annual supply
of ammunition, usually furnished them by the British
government, had failed to reach them, the Creek and
Cherokee Indians, by whom Georgia was surrounded,
urged on by Stewart and Cameron, the agents of the
British government for Indian affairs in the south, began
to manifest an ugly spirit and to contemplate a descent
upon the inhabitants of the frontier parishes of Georgia
and Carolina. Detained at home by apprehensions of
danger from this source, the members elected to this new
Provincial Congress did not succeed in organizing a
House until the twentieth of January, 1/76. When it did
meet, the venerable and patriotic Archibald Bulloch was
elected President of the Executive Council. President
Ewen, of the Council of Safety, laid before the congress
all the correspondence with the Councils of Safety in the
other provinces, together with many other papers, show
ing the temper of the other provinces and the attitude of
the British government towards the colonies, among them
the address of the House of Commons to the King at the
assembling of Parliament in the preceding October, in
which that body assured his Majesty of its loyal and
earnest support in his efforts to crush out the incipient
rebellion by force of arms.

When this last document was read it fired the hearts

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of the hesitating deputies and they at once resolved to
meet force with force, and an order was issued for the
arrest of Governor Sir James Wright and several mem
bers of his Executive Council.

On the eighteenth of January, two days before the con
vening of the Provincial Congress, Joseph Habersham,
a member of both the Council of Safety and the Provin
cial Congress, accompanied by a small band of patriots
who volunteered to go with him, arrested the Governor
while in conference with his Council. The members of
the Council fled precipitately and dispersed in every di
rection. The Governor was put on parole and ordered
to confine himself to his own house and to have no com
munication with either his council or other officers of
the King, or any person inimical to the cause of the peo
ple, and a guard was placed at his front door to prevent
his escape. Governor Wright observed his parole of
honor for a time, but after nearly four weeks of confine
ment broke it, and, escaping through a back door of his
house, fled in the night time and made his way, under
cover of darkness, to an armed British ship anchored in
the harbor.

Two days after he reached the ship he, in violation of
his parole, addressed the following communication to his
Council in Savannah :

"HONORABLE GENTLEMEN — After using my best en
deavours for upward of three weeks to prevail on those
in whose hands the present ruling powers are, that the
commanders of his Majesty's ships here might obtain as
surances that they might come to town and have free
intercourse with me without receiving any insults from
the people assembled in and about town ; also that the
King's ships might be supplied with provisions on pay
ing the full price or value of them ; and finding that

270 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

the last message relative to these matters which I desired
the representatives of the town of Savannah to deliver to
the persons exercising those powers was so lightly treated
and little regarded as that, although delivered on Tues
day morning the 6th instant, yet I received no kind of
answer to it for five days, nor did I understand whether
it was meant to give me any answer or not; and well
knowing that it was essential to his Majesty's service
and the welfare of this Province that I should have an
interview with the King's officers here ; for these reasons
and many others which you were made acquainted with
and approved of, I determined in all events to attempt
coming down here, where I arrived at three o'clock yes
terday morning. And after having examined and duly
weighed and considered my several letters from Eng
land, and General Howe at Boston, and after having had
a full conversation with his Majesty's Officers here, I
have the great satisfaction to be able to affirm from
the best authority that the forces now here will not com
mit any hostilities against this Province, though fully
sufficient to reduce and overcome every opposition that
could be attempted to be made and that nothing is meant
or wanted but a friendly intercourse and a supply of
fresh provisions. This his Majesty's officers have an
undoubted right to expect, and what they insist upon :
and this I not only solemnly require in his Majesty's
name but also, as (probably) the best friend the people
of Georgia have, advise them without the least hesitation
to comply with, or it may not be in my power to insure
them the continuance of the peace and quietude they now
have, if it may be called so.

His Majesty has been graciously pleased to grant me
leave to return to England, and (whatever may be
thought) my regard for the Province and people is such
that I cannot avoid (and possibly for the last time) ex
horting the people to save themselves and their posterity

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from that total ruin and destruction which, although they
may not, yet I most clearly see at the threshold of their
doors : and I cannot leave them without again warning
them in the most earnest and friendly manner, to desist
from their present plans and resolutions. It is still in
their power: and if they will enable me to do it, I will,
(as far as I can) engage to give and endeavour to obtain
for them full pardon and forgiveness for all past crimes
and offences ; and this I conjure you to consider well and
most seriously of, before it's too late. But let things
happen as they may, be it remembered that I this day in
the King's name offer the people of Georgia the Olive
branch, that most desirable object and inestimable bless
ing, the return of peace to them and their posterity.

"Captain Barclay has desired me to notify that he is
willing and ready to give every assistance in his power
to the captains of all such merchant ships as may be
legally cleared out to enable them to proceed on their
respective voyages. I am also to acquaint you that the
detention of the schooner on Friday and Saturday last
proceeded entirely from a mistake by the officer who
commanded the armed sloop, and that if the owner will
send down, the schooner will not only be delivered up,
but any reasonable price will be paid for the damaged rice
that was on board — part of which has been used to feed
hogs and poultry — or they may take it away again. I
am also to mention that the same armed sloop will be
sent up tomorrow to Four Mile Point in order to get
fresh water, and for no other purpose.

"This letter, which I consider as of the utmost con
sequence and importance to the whole people of Georgia,
I must desire you will be pleased to communicate to the
Assembly, if sitting, and if not, to those who are called
the Council of Safety, and especially to the inhabitants
of the town and Province in general, and acquaint them

272 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

that I shall expect their full and clear answer to every
part of it in a reasonable time.

"I am, with perfect esteem, Gentlemen,

Your most obedient and faithful servant,

JAMES WRIGHT/'

The congress adjourned without giving Governor
Wright any answer to this letter. After the adjourn
ment, and after the members had dispersed to their homes
in the several parishes, the Governor and the naval officers
in the harbor attempted to force their way into Savannah.
This effort was vigorously resisted by the patriots. The
British vessels were fired on from the shore by Major
Joseph Habersham, and three of them were burned by
Captain, afterwards Commodore, Bowen, and six were
dismantled and only two escaped to sea.

It was at this juncture, when there was a probability
that the town of Savannah might fall into the hands of
the enemy, that the patriots prepared for a sacrifice but
seldom, if ever, made by a people struggling for liberty.
The Council of Safety passed an order that the houses
of all the friends of liberty and of all widows and orphans
in the towrn be appraised and a record made of the ap
praisement bills, no notice being taken of the houses of
those who were in sympathy with the royal government,
and that if the British forces should effect a landing and
occupy the town the torch should be applied, so that the
minions of the King would find themselves in possession,
not of a town, but a heap of smoldering ruins. This
proposition of the Council of Safety was submitted to a
mass meeting of the property holders of the town who
were adherents to the popular cause, and was approved by
them without a dissenting voice, and Colonel Mclntosh,
who was in command of the little American force, was or-

JOURNAL OF PROVINCIAL CONGRESS. 273

dered to carry out the order. Fortunately, however, the
emergency did not arise, the enemy having been driven
away before he could effect a landing. Still this incident
serves to show how devoted were the patriots of Savannah
to the cause of liberty, and what sacrifices they were pre
pared to make should occasion require it.

Before its adjournment this congress, having put Geor
gia squarely in line with the other provinces, appointed
Archibald Bulloch, John Houstoun, Lyman Hall, Button
Gwinnett and George Walton to represent the state in
the Continental Congress, and provided for the organ
ization of a regiment of troops on the continental basis
to aid in the common defense, and appointed the follow
ing officers to command it : Lachlan Mclntosh, Colonel ;
Samuel Elbert, Lieutenant-Colonel,, and Joseph Haber-
sham, Major. The militia was thoroughly organized and
drilled, and active military operations preparatory to
resistance to the continuance of British aggression were
seen on every hand. Paper money was authorized to
meet the necessary expenses, and penalties provided for
those who refused to take it in trade at its nominal value,
or otherwise so acted as to depreciate its purchasing
power.

This action on the part of the congress was not pre
mature, for when Governor Wright broke his parole and
took refuge in the armed vessel "Scarborough," he found,
among other communications awaiting him, a copy of an
act of Parliament, passed late in December, 1775, pro
hibiting commercial intercourse between Great Britain
and all of the American colonies, Georgia included, and
a letter addressed to him, directing the confiscation of all
of the property of the people of the colony excepting
that of the adherents to the royal government. Thus, by
the royal edict, a majority of the people of the colony

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274 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

were reduced to beggary for daring to demand for them
selves the rights guaranteed by the British constitution
to every subject of the British King.

When the British war-ships made their appearance be
fore Savannah early in March, the legislature adjourned
to Augusta, where the body assembled on the eighth day
of that month and elected John \Yereat Speaker. With
out a constitution, and without any sort of fundamental
law to guide them, the members were at a loss to know
how to proceed, and yet the revolution had reached that
point at which it was imperatively necessary to provide
the requisite machinery to keep the government going
and prevent a state of anarchy. The colonial laws were
all of force, but there were no officers, or at least but
few, to enforce them, for, as was to be expected, most of
the officers under the royal government sided with the
King's party and their offices were vacant. Still, many of
the members of the congress hesitated to act, because they
had not been elected by their constituents, to alter any
fundamental law, but to provide for the enforcement of
the statute laws already enacted.

Finally, on the I5th of April, 1776, the Congress, real
izing that no government could be carried on without
some sort of fundamental law, adopted the following
preamble and resolutions as "a ground-work of a more
stable and formal government :"

"COLONY OF GEORGIA :-

"Whereas, the unwise and iniquitous system of admin
istration obstinately persisted in by the British Parlia
ment and Ministry against the good people of America
hath at length driven the latter to take up arms as their
last resource for the preservation of their rights and
liberties which God and the Constitution gave them :

JOURNAL OF PROVINCIAL CONGRESS. 275

"And whereas an armed force, with hostile intentions
against the people of this Province, having lately arrived
at Cockspur, his Excellency Sir James Wright, Baronet,
and King's Governor of Georgia, in aid of the views of
the administration and with a design to add to those in
conveniences which necessarily result from a state of
confusion, suddenly and unexpectedly carried off the
great seal of the Province with him ;

"And whereas, in consequence of this and other events,
doubts have arisen with the several magistrates how far
they are authorized to act under the former appointments,
and the greatest part of them have absolutely refused to
do so, whereby all judicial powers are become totally sus
pended to the great danger of persons and property;

"And whereas, before any general system of govern
ment can be concluded upon, it is necessary that applica
tion be made to the Continental Congress for their advice
and directions upon the same; but, nevertheless, in the
present state of things, it is indispensably requisite that
some temporary expedient be fallen upon to curb the law
less and protect the peaceable;

"This Congress, therefore, as the representatives of
the people, with whom all power originates, and for
whose benefit all government is intended, deeply im
pressed with a sense of duty to their constituents, of love
to their country, and inviolable attachment to the liberties
of America, and seeing how much it will tend to the ad
vantage of each to preserve rules, justice, and order, do
take upon them for the present, and until the further
order of the Continental Congress, or of this, or any
future Provincial Congress, to declare, and they accord
ingly do declare, order, and direct that the following rules
and regulations be adopted in this Province — that is to
say —

276 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

"ist. There shall be a President and Commander-in-
Chief appointed by ballot in this Congress, for six months,
or during the time specified above.

"2d. There shall be, in like manner, and for the like
time, also a Council of Safety, consisting of thirteen per
sons, besides the five delegates to the General Congress,
appointed to act in the nature of a Privy Council to the
said President or Commander-in-Chief.

"3d. That the President shall be invested with all the
executive powers of government not inconsistent with
what is hereafter mentioned, but shall be bound to con
sult and follow the advice of the said Council in all cases
whatsoever, and any seven of the said Committee shall
be a quorum for the purpose of advising.

"4th. That all the laws, whether common or statute,
and the acts of Assembly which have formerly been ac
knowledged to be of force in this Province, and which do
not interfere with the proceedings of the Continental or
our Provincial Congresses, and also all and singular the
resolves and recommendations of the said Continental
and Provincial Congress, shall be of full force, validity,
and effect until otherwise ordered.

"5th. That there shall be a Chief-Justice, and two
assistant judges, an Attorney-General, a Provost-Mar
shal, and Clerk of the Court of Sessions, appointed by
ballot, to serve during the pleasure of the Congress.
The Court of Sessions, or Oyer and Terminer, shall be
opened and held on the second Tuesday in June and De
cember, and the former rules and methods of proceedings,
as nearly as may be, shall be observed in regard to sum
moning of Juries and all other cases whatsoever.

"6th. That the President or Commander-in-Chief,
with the advice of the Council as before mentioned, shall

JOURNAL OF PROVINCIAL CONGRESS. 277

appoint magistrates to act during pleasure in the several
Parishes throughout this Province, and such magistrates
shall conform themselves, as nearly as may be, to the old
established forms and methods of proceedings.

"7th. That all legislative powers shall be reserved to
the Congress, and no person who holds any place of
profit, civil or military, shall be eligible as a member
either of the Congress or of the Council of Safety.

"8th. That the following sums shall be allowed as
salaries to the respective officers for and during the time
they shall serve, over and besides all such perquisites and
fees as have been formerly annexed to the said offices
respectively :

"To the President and Commander-in-Chief
after the rate per annum, of Sterling. . .£300

To the Chief Justice 100

To the Attorney-General 25

To the Provost Marshal 60

To the Clerk of Court 50"

Archibald Bulloch was elected President and Com
mander-in-Chief of Georgia; John Glen, Chief Justice;
William Stephens, Attorney-General, and James Jack
son, Clerk of Court.

On the first of May, 1776, the Council of Safety sent
the following congratulatory address to Mr. Bulloch, the
first President of Georgia:

"May it please your Excellency.

"The long session of the late Congress, together with
the season of the year, called particularly for a speedy
recess : and the House having adjourned while you were
out of town it becomes more particularly necessary for

278 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

us to address your Excellency. All, therefore, with un
feigned confidence and regard, beg leave to congratulate
not only your Excellency on your appointment to, but
your country on your acceptance of, the supreme com
mand of this Province.

"It would be needless and tedious to recount the vari
ous and yet multiplying oppressions which have driven
the people of this Province to erect that government which
they have called upon you to see executed. Suffice it then
to declare that it was only an alternative of anarchy and
misery, and, by consequence, the effect of dire necessity.
Your Excellency will know that it was the endeavor of
the Congress to stop every avenue of vice and oppression,
lest the infant virtue of a still more infant Province might
in time rankle into corruption : and we doubt not that
by your Excellency's exertions all the resolutions made
or adopted by Congress will be enforced with firmness
without any regard to any individual or any set of men :
for no government can be said to be established while
any part of the community refuses submission to its au
thority. In the discharge of this arduous and important
task your Excellency may rely on our constant and best
endeavors to assist and support you."

To this address the President replied as follows :

"HONORABLE GENTLEMEN, — I am much obliged to you
for your kind expressions of congratulation on my ap
pointment to the supreme command of this Colony. When
I reflect from whence the appointment is derived, that of
the free and uncorrnpt suffrages of my fellow citizens, it
cannot fail to stimulate me to the most vigorous exertions
in the discharge of the important duties to which I am
called by our Provincial Congress. While I have the
advice and assistance of gentlemen of known integrity
and abilities, I doubt not but I shall be enabled to enforce

JOURNAL OF PROVINCIAL CONGRESS. 279

and carry into execution every resolve and law of Con
gress. And, as far as lies with me, my country may de
pend I will, with a becoming firmness, and the greatest
impartiality, always endeavor to cause Justice in mercy
"to be executed."

Thus Archibald Bulloch became, in fact, the first Gov
ernor of Georgia clothed with all the powers of Chief
Executive, but required always to act under the advice
and with the consent of the Council of Safety. President
Bulloch at once went vigorously to work to strengthen
the province and increase the military force organized
for its defence, and to carry into effect a resolution of
the Continental Congress issued the following proclama
tion :

GEORGIA, July 12, 1776.

By his Excellency Archibald Bulloch, Esq., President
and Commander-in-Chief of the said Province :

A PROCLAMATION:

WHEREAS, the present struggle for our invaluable
rights and liberties in this Province makes it requisite to
give every encouragement to all such persons who are
willing to enter into the service of their country; and our
Provincial Congress at their last meeting having taken
the same under consideration, and being willing and
ready to promote the welfare of every friend to the
American cause, have thought fit to resolve, "That all
persons inlisting in the service of this Province, who do
faithfully serve in the present contest until a peace shall
be concluded with Great Britain, or shall serve three
years in the present war, shall be entitled to one hundred
acres of land in this Province; and should any of the
aforesaid men be killed in defence of this Province, his
wife or family shall be entitled to the same."

280 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

I do therefore issue this my Proclamation, declaring
that every man who shall inlist in any of the Troops of
Horse, or Companies of Foot, raised for the defence of
this Province, and shall serve agreeable to the terms
above mentioned shall be entitled to a grant of one
hundred acres of land as aforesaid, and in case of acci
dent, his wife and family shall receive and enjoy the same
emolument.

Given under my hand and seal at Savannah, the I2th
day of July, 17/6.

ARCHIBALD BULLOCH.

By his Excellency's command :
EDWARD LANGWORTHY, Secretary.

On the fourth of July. 1/76, the Continental Congress
at Philadelphia proclaimed the Declaration of Independ
ence, and on the tenth day of August following an official
copy of this declaration was received by President Bui-
loch through the hands of a special messenger sent by
John Hancock, President of Congress. President Bui-
loch at once called the Executive Council together and

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read to them the ever memorable document, and a few
days afterward, with the advice and consent of the Coun
cil, issued the following proclamation : —

"GEORGIA,

By His Excellency Archibald Bulloch. Esquire, Presi
dent and Commander-in-Chief of the said State in Coun
cil.

WHEREAS it has been resolved by congress that it be
recommended to the representative assemblies and con
ventions of the United States, where no government
equal to the exigencies of their affairs has been estab
lished, to adopt such government as shall in the opinion

JOURNAL OF PROVINCIAL CONGRESS. 281

of the representatives of the people best conduce to the
happiness and safety of their constituents in particular
and America in general. And whereas the Honorable
the Congress of the United States has received no answer
whatever to the humble petition of these states for the
redress of grievances, and seeing the whole force of Great
Britain, aided by foreign mercenaries, is to be excited
for the destruction of the good people of these states,
have judged it necessary to dissolve all connection be
tween Great Britain and the said United States and have
accordingly declared them to be free and independent
states. And whereas, we have received sundry dispatches
from our delegates at Philadelphia, enclosing blank com
missions for letters of Marque with copies of bonds and
other matters of public business.

And whereas the term for which our state Legislature
were appointed will expire on the last day of the present
month of August and a new election is ordered to be held
throughout this state between the first and the tenth days
of September next, for the purpose of choosing represen
tatives to meet in convention at Savannah on the first
Tuesday in October. Taking these premises into consid
eration, I have thought fit, by and with the consent of
the Council, to order the several parishes and districts
within this State to proceed to the election of delegates
between the first and tenth days of September next to
form and sit in convention ; and the delegates so elected
are directed to convene at Savannah on the first Tuesday
in October following when business of the highest con
sequence to the government and welfare of the state will
be opened for their consideration.

ARCHIBALD BULLOCK/'
By his Excellency's Command
EDWARD LAXGWORTHY, Secy.

282 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

The elections were held and the delegates assembled in
Savannah on the first Tuesday in October, 17/6, and en
tered upon the work of framing a constitution for the
state. The convention did not complete its work and ad
journ until the fifth day of February, 1777. Unfortu
nately no journal of its proceedings is now in existence,
and nowhere can even a list of the names of the men who
sat in it be found. All the records of its work we now
have, after the lapse of a hundred and thirty years, is the
Constitution which it, without model or precedent, made
for Georgia. It is here inserted, and is as follows : —

(From the State Archives.)

THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE OF
GEORGIA.

WHEREAS the conduct of the legislature of Great-Brit
ain, for many years past, has been so oppressive on the
people of America, that of late years they have plainly
declared, and asserted a right to raise taxes upon the
people of America, and to make laws to bind them in all
cases whatsoever, without their consent; which conduct
being repugnant to the common rights of mankind, hath
obliged the Americans, as freemen, to oppose such op
pressive measures, and to assert the rights and privileges
they are entitled to, by the laws of nature and reason;
and accordingly it hath been done by the general consent
of all the people of the states of New-Hampshire, Massa
chusetts-Bay, Rhode-Island, Connecticut, New- York,
New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, the counties of New-Castle,
Kent and Suffex on the Delaware, Maryland, Virginia,
North-Carolina, South-Carolina, and Georgia, given by
their representatives met together in General Congress
in the city of Philadelphia

And whereas it hath been recommended by the said

CONSTITUTION OF 1777. 283

Congress on the fifteenth of May last, to the respective
assemblies and conventions of the United States, where
no government, sufficient to the energies of their affairs,
hath been hitherto established, to adopt such government,
as may, in the opinion of the representatives of the peo
ple, best conduce to the happiness and safety of their
constituents in particular, and America in general.

And whereas the independence of the United States of
America has been also declared, on the fourth day of
July, one thousand seven hundred and seventy six, by the
said Honorable Congress, and all political connection be
tween them and the crown of Great-Britain is in conse
quence thereof dissolved.

We therefore the representatives of the people, from
whom all power originates, and for whose benefit all gov
ernment is intended, by virtue of the power delegated to
us, do ordain and declare, and it is hereby ordained and
declared, that the following rules and regulations be
adopted for the future government of the state.

I. The legislature, executive, and judiciary depart- Departments of

, ,, . . ,. . n government to

merits shall be separate and distinct, so that neither exer- ^ distinct,
cise the powers properly belonging to the other.

II. The legislature of this state shall be composed of Election of

. Representa-

the people, as is herein after pointed out : and the repre- tives-
sentatives shall be elected yearly, and every year, on the
first Tuesday in December; and the representatives so
elected shall meet the first Tuesday in January following,
at Savannah, or any other place or places where the
House of Assembly for the time being shall direct. On
the first day of the meeting of the representatives sooftheGov-
chosen, they shall proceed to the choice of a Governor,"
who shall be stiled Honorable; and of an executive coun
cil, by ballot, out of their own body; viz. two from each

284

REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

county, except those counties which are not yet entitled
to send ten members. One of each county shall always
attend where the governor resides, by monthly rotation,
unless the members of each county agree for a longer or
shorter period ; this is not intended to exclude either
member attending: the remaining number of represen
tatives shall be called the House of Assembly: and the
majority of the members of the said house shall have
power to proceed to business.

III. It shall be an unalterable rule, that the House of
aLnnu™ibly to ** Assembly shall expire, and be at an end yearly, and

every year, on the day preceding the clay of election
mentioned in the foregoing rule.

IV. The representatives shall be divided in the fol-

Ten members . . , - ,

from each lowing manner; ten members from each county, as is

county except

Liberty-it has herein after directed, except the county of Liberty, which
contains three parishes, and that shall be allowed four
teen. The ceded lands north of Ogechee shall be one
county, and known by the name of Wilkes.

fourteen.

Wilkes.

Richmond.

Burke.

Effingham.

Chatham.

Liberty.

The parish of St. Paul shall be another county, and
known by the name of Richmond.

The parish of St. George shall be another county and
known by the name of Burke.

The parish of St. Matthew, and the upper part of St.
Philip, above Canouchee, shall be another county, and
known by the name of Effingham.

The parish of Christ Church, and the lower part of
St. Philip, below Canouchee, shall be another county, and
known by the name of Chatham.

The parish of St. John, St. Andrew, and St. James
shall be another county, and known by the name of Lib
erty.

CONSTITUTION OF 1777. 285

The parish of St. David and St. Patrick shall be an-

Glynn.

other county, and known by the name of Glynn.

The parish of St. Thomas and St. Mary shall be an-

Camden.

other county, and known by the name of Camden.

The port and town of Savannah shall be allowed four Four members

for the port &

members to represent their trade. town of savan

nah.

The port and town of Sunbury shall be allowed two TWO for Sun-

bury.

members to represent their trade.

V. The two counties of Glynn and Camden shall have

Representa-

one representative each, and also they, and all other coun-Hvei* .of new

counties appor-

ties that may hereafter be laid out by the House of As-tloned-
sembly, shall be under the following regulations, viz.
At their first institution, each county shall have one mem
ber, provided the inhabitants of the said county shall have
ten electors; and if thirty, they shall have t\vo; if forty,
three; if sixty, four; if eighty, six; if an hundred and up
wards, ten ; at which time two executive counsellors shall
be chosen from them, as is directed for the other coun
ties.

VI. The representatives shall be chosen out of the
residents of each county, who shall have resided at least..

J Qualifications

twelve months in this state, and three months in the^vjfpresenta-
county where they shall be elected ; except the freehold
ers of the counties of Glynn and Camden, who are in a
state of alarm, and who shall have the liberty of choosing
one member each, as specified in the articles of this con
stitution, in any other county, until they have residence
sufficient to qualify them for more : And they shall be of
the protestant religion, and of the age of twenty one
years, and shall be possessed in their own right of two
hundred and fifty acres of land, or some property to the
amount of two hundred and fifty pounds.

286 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

VII. The House of Assembly shall have power to
makTaif laws, niake such laws and regulations as may be conducive to

the good order and well being of the state; provided such
laws and regulations be not repugnant to the true intent
and meaning of any rule or regulation contained in this
constitution.

The House of Assembly shall also have power to re-
j^ws— choose Peal a^ laws an<l ordinances they find injurious to the
othe?eofficerfn people : And the house shall choose its own speaker, ap-

and direct writs . .

of election. point its o\vn officers, settle its own rules of proceeding,
and direct writs of election for supplying intermediate
vacancies; and shall have power of adjournment to any
time or times within the year.

VIII. All laws and ordinances shall be three times
Method of pass- read, and each reading shall be on different and separate

ing laws, &c.

days, except in cases of great necessity and danger; and
all laws and ordinances shall be sent to the executive
council, after the second reading, for their perusal and
advice.

IX. All male white inhabitants, of the age of twenty
ei^ctorsation °f one vears> and possessed in his own right of ten pounds

value, and liable to pay tax in this state, or being of any
mechanic trade, and shall have been resident six months
in this state, shall have a right to vote at all elections for
representatives, or any other officers herein agreed to be
chosen by the people at large ; and every person having a

Election by right to vote at any election, shall vote by ballot per-

baiiot. sonally.

X. Xo officer whatever shall serve any process, or
TO be free and give any other hindrance to any person entitled to vote,

open.

either m going to the place of election, or during the time
of the said election, or on their returning home from
such election ; nor shall any military officer, or soldier,

CONSTITUTION OF 1777. 287

appear at any election in military character, to the intent
that all elections may be free and open.

XL No person shall be entitled to more then one vote,

, , , Electors to vote

which shall be given in the county where such person where they re-
resides, except as before excepted; nor shall any person

ote

who holds any title of nobility be entitled to a vote, or be
capable of serving as a representative, or hold any post
of honor, profit or trust in this state, whilst such person
claims his title of nobility ; but if the person shall give up
such distinction, in the manner as may be directed by any
future legislature, then, and in such case, he shall be en
titled to vote, and represent, as before directed, and enjoy
all the other benefits of a free citizen.

XII. Every person absenting himself from an elec

tion, and shall neglect to give in his or their ballot, at ie^ting°tonvot
such election, shall be subject to a penalty not exceeding
five pounds; the mode of recovery, and also the appro
priation thereof, to be pointed out and directed by act of
the legislature; provided nevertheless, that a -reasonable
excuse shall be admitted.

XIII. The manner of electing representatives shall be

1111 11111,1 1 j. • • Election of rep-

by ballot, and shall be taken bv two or more justices oiresentatives to

. " , „ . , .be by ballot.

the peace, m each county, who shall provide a convenient
box for receiving the said ballots ; and on closing the poll,
the ballots shall be compared in public, with the list of
votes that have been taken, and the majority immediately
declared; a certificate of the same being given to the
persons elected, and also a certificate returned to the
house of representatives.

XIV. Every person entitled to vote shall take the fol-EIector,s oath-
lowing oath, or affirmation, if required, viz.

'I, A. B. do voluntarily and solemnly swear, or affirm,
as the case may be, that I do owe true allegiance to this

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REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

lth'

state, and will support the constitution thereof. So help
me God.'

XV. Any five of the representatives elected, as before
directed, being met, shall have power to administer the
following oath to each other ; and they or any other mem
ber, being so sworn, shall in the house administer the
oath to all other members that attend, in order to qualify
them to take their seats, viz.

'I, A. B. do solemnly swear, that I will bear true alle-
giance to the state of Georgia, and will truly perform the
trusts reposed in me ; and that I will execute the same to
the best of my knowledge, for the benefits of this state,
and the support of the constitution thereof; and that I
have obtained my election without fraud or bribe what
ever. So help me God.'

XVI. The continental delegates shall be appointed
- annua% by ballot, and shall have a right to sit, debate

fof and vote, in the House of Assembly, and be deemed a
part thereof; subject however to the regulations contained
in the twelfth article of the confederation of the United
States.

XVII. No person bearing any post of profit under
ofVseat" tm's state, or any person bearing any military commission,
under this or any other state or states, except officers of
the militia, shall be elected a representative. And if any
representative shall be appointed to any place of profit or
military commission, which he shall accept, his seat shall
immediately become vacant, and he shall be incapable of
re-election, whilst holding such office.

By this trticle, it is not to be understood that the office
of a justice of the peace is a post of profit.

anynte

y'

CONSTITUTION OF 1777. 289

XVIII. No person shall hold more than one office of NO person shall

hold more than

profit, under this state, at one and the same time. profit^6 °f

XIX. The governor shall, with the advice of the ex

ecutive council, exercise the executive powers of govern- ^xSvecoJn-

, . . . . . cil's power.

ment, according to the laws of this state and the constitu
tion thereof; save only in the case of pardons, and re
mission of fines, which he shall in no instance grant ; but
he may reprieve a criminal, suspend a fine, until the meet
ing of the Assembly; who may determine therein as they
shall judge fit.

XX. The governor, with the advice of the executive
council, shall have power to call the House of Assembly
together, upon any emergency, before the time which they
stand adjourned to.

XXL The governor, with the advice of the executive
council, shall fill up all intermediate vacancies that shall d
happen in the offices till the next general election : And
all commissions, civil and military, shall be issued by the
governor, under his hand, and the great seal of the state.

XXII. The governor may preside in the executive

council at all times, except when they are taking into^orshatilrll
consideration, and perusing the laws and ordinances of-SM
fered to them by the House of Assembly.

XXIII. The governor shall be chosen annually by

ballot, and shall not be eligible to the said office forHg.^iection &
more" than one year out of three, nor shall he hold any
military commission under any other state or states.

The governor shall reside at such place as the House

His residence

of Assembly for the time being shall appoint.

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290 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS,

and oath^ XXIV. The governor's oath :

'I, A. B. elected governor of the state of Georgia, by
the representatives thereof, do solemnly promise and
swear, that I will, during the term of my appointment, to
the best of my skill and judgment, execute the said office
faithfully and conscientiously, according to law, without
favor, affection, or partiality; that I will to the utmost of
my power, support, maintain and defend the state of
Georgia, and the constitution of the same, and use my
utmost endeavors to protect the people thereof in the se
cure enjoyment of all their rights, franchises and privi
leges ; and that the laws and ordinances of the state be
duly observed, and that law and justice in mercy be exe
cuted in all judgments. And I do further' solemnly prom
ise and swear, that I will peaceably and quietly resign the
government to which I have been elected, at the period to
which my continuance in the said office is limited by the
constitution : And lastly, I do also solemnly swear, that I
have not accepted of the government whereunto I am
elected contrary to the articles of this constitution. So
help me God.'

This oath to be administered to him by the speaker of
the Assembly.

The same oath to be administered by the speaker to the

President's . . r , •, • •,

oath. president of the council.

No person shall be eligible to the office of governor
who has not resided three years in this state.

XXV. The executive council shall meet the day after
Election of their election, and proceed to the choice of a president

president & offi
cers of the out of their own body — they shall have power to appoint

council.

their own officers, and settle their own rules of proceed
ings. The council shall always vote by counties, and not
individually.

CONSTITUTION OF 1777. 291

XXVI. Every counsellor, being present, shall have

. ... Protest, how

power of entering his protest against any measures in entered,
council he has not consented to; provided he does it in
three days.

XXVII. During the sitting of the Assembly, the
whole of the executive council shall attend, unless pre-

& ordinances.

vented by sickness, or some other urgent necessity; and
in that case, a majority of the council shall make a board
to examine the laws and ordinances sent them by the
House of Assembly ; and all laws and ordinances sent to
the council shall be returned in five days after, with their
remarks thereon.

XXVIII. A committee from the council, sent with

any proposed amendments to any law or ordinance, shallPos?n|ramend-

..... - . ments.

deliver their reasons for such proposed amendments, sit
ting and covered ; the whole house at that time, except the
speaker, uncovered.

XXIX. The president of the executive council, in the
absence or sickness of the governor, shall exercise all the ident" shin "act

. , as governor.

powers of the governor.

XXX. \Yhen any affair that requires secrecy shall be

laid before the governor and the executive council, it shall a^mtn^Teran*7
be the duty of the governor, and he is hereby obliged to to the council
administer the following oath, viz.

'I, A. B. do solemnly swear, that any business that shall
be at this time communicated to the council, I will not, in
any manner whatever, either by speaking, writing or oth
erwise, reveal the same, to any person whatever, until
leave given by the council, or when called upon by the
House of Assembly; and all this I swear without any
reservation whatever. So help me God.'

292 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

And the same oath shall be administered to the secre-

Also to the

secretary. tary and other officers necessary to carry the business into
execution.

continuation of XXXI. The executive power shall exist till renewed
power.ecutive as pointed out by the rules of this constitution.

XXXII. In all transactions between the legislative
and executive bodies, the same shall be communicated by

i, message, to be delivered from the legislative body to the

r.~d governor,

how regulated, governor or executive council by a committee ; and from
the governor to the House of Assembly by the secretary
of the council ; and from the executive council by a com
mittee of the said council.

XXXIII. The governor, for the time being, shall
governor!1*16 °£ ^ captain-general and commander in chief over all the

militia, and other military and naval forces belonging to
this state.

XXXIV. All militia commissions shall specify, that
e Person commissioned shall continue during good be-

ration.

XXXV. Every county in this state that has, or here-
Battaiions after may have, two hundred and fifty men and upwards,

liable to bear arms, shall be formed into a battalion ; and
when the}'- become too numerous for one battalion, they
shall be formed into more, by bill of the legislature ; and
those counties that have a less number than two hundred
and fifty, shall be formed into independent companies.

XXXVI. There shall be established in each county
SBtSSSteent a C0lirt' to be called a Superior Court, to be held twice in

each year. On the first Tuesday in March in the county
of Chatham ;

CONSTITUTION OF 1777. 293

The second Tuesday in March in the county of Effing-
ham;

The third Tuesday in March in the county of Burke ;

The fourth Tuesday in March in the county of Rich
mond ;

The next Tuesday in the county of Wilkes ;
And Tuesday fortnight in the county of Liberty ;
The next Tuesday in the county of Glynn ;

The next Tuesday in the county of Camden : The like
courts to commence in October, and continue as above.

XXXVII. All causes and matters of dispute between
any parties residing in the same county, to be tried within
the county.

XXXVIII. All matters in dispute between contend
ing parties residing in different counties, shall be tried in ^§ye to
the county where the defendant resides, except in cases

of real estates, which shall be tried in the county where
such real estate lies.

XXXIX. All matters of breach of the peace, felony,
murder and treason against the state, to be tried in the J^j*1
county where the same was committed. All matters of
dispute, both civil and criminal, in any county where
there is not a sufficient number of inhabitants to form a
court, shall be tried in the next adjacent county where a
court is held.

XL. All causes of what nature soever, shall be tried
in the Superior court, except as hereafter mentioned ;°
which court shall consist of the chief justice, and three C0urt.upe
or more of the justices residing in the county; in case of

294 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

the absence of the chief justice, the senior justice on the
bench shall acl as chief justice, with the clerk of the
county, attorney for the state, sheriff, coroner, constable,
and the jurors. And in case of the absence of any of the
aforementioned officers, the justices to appoint others in
their room pro tempore. And if any plaintiff or defendant
in civil causes shall be dissatisfied with the determination
of the jury, then and in that case they shall be at liberty
within three days to enter an appeal from that verdict,
and demand a new trial by special jury, to be nominated
as follows, viz., each party, plaintiff and defendant, shall
choose six ; six more names shall be taken indifferently
out of a box provided for that purpose ; the whole eight
een to be summoned, and their names to be put together
into the box, and the first twelve that are drawn out, being
present, shall be the special jury to try the cause, and
from which there shall be no appeal.

XLI. The jury shall be judges of law as well as of
jury judges of fact, and shall not be allowed to bring in a special verdict ;

law and fact.

but if all, or any, of the jury have any doubts concerning
points of law, they shall apply to the bench, who shall
each of them in rotation give their opinion.

XLII. The jury shall be sworn to bring in a verdict
Their oath. according to law, and the opinion they entertain of the
evidence; provided it be not repugnant to the rules and
regulations contained in this constitution.

XLJII. The special jury shall be sworn to bring in
Special jury's a verdict according to law, and the opinion they entertain
of the evidence; provided it be not repugnant to justice,
equity and conscience, and the rules and regulations con
tained in this constitution, of which they shall judge.

Trial of cap- XLJV. Captures, both by the sea and land, to be tried
andean! sea in the county where such shall be carried in ; a special

CONSTITUTION OF 1777. 295

court to be called by the chief justice, or in his absence,
by the then senior justice in the said county, upon appli
cation of the captors or claimants; which cause shall be
determined within the space of ten days. The mode of
proceeding and appeal shall be the same as in the superior
courts; unless after the second trial an appeal is made to
the continental congress ; and the distance of time be
tween the first and second trial shall not exceed fourteen
days : And all maritime causes to be tried in like manner.

XLV. No grand jury shall consist of less than eigh-

r * «... Grand jury,

teen, and twelve may rind a bill.

XLVI. That the court of conscience be continued as

heretofore practiced, and that the jurisdiction thereof be science, ^"ju
risdiction,
extended to try causes not amounting to more than ten

pounds.

XLVII. All executions exceeding five pounds, except

., , Stay of execu-

m the case ot a court-merchant, shall be stayed until thetion.
first Monday in March ; provided security be given for
debt and costs.

XLVIII. All the costs attending any action in the su
perior court shall not exceed the sum of three pounds ; £nSuf{iondofcon~
and that no cause be allowed to depend in the superior ^2S*i«2Srts.
court longer than two terms.

XLIX. Every officer of the state shall be liable to be

Officers ac-

called to account by the House of Assembly. countable to the

Assembly.

L. Ever>- county shall keep the public records belong-

, , i Records to be

ing to the same, and authenticated copies of the several kept in their

proper coun-

records now in the possession of this state shall be made ties,
out, and deposited in that county to which they belong.

LI. Estates shall not be entailed; and when a person Eatates not to
dies intestate, his or her estate shall be divided equally ^ entailed-

296 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

among' their children; the widow shall have a child's

Distribution.

share, or her dower, at her option; And other intestates'
estates to be divided according to the ad of distribution
made in the reign of Charles the Second, unless other
wise altered by any future act of the legislature.

LI I. A register of probates shall be appointed by the
ofregfatereof legislature in every county, for proving wills, and grant-
probates. ing. ietters Of administration.

LIIL All civil officers in each county shall be annu-
officers. y ally elected on the day of the general election ; except
justices of the peace and registers of probates, who shall
be appointed by the House of Assembly.

LIV. Schools shall be erected in each county, and
puWte°schoois. supported at the general expence of the state, as the leg
islature shall hereafter point out and direct.

LV. A court-house and jail to be erected at the pub-
housesrand l'c exPence ni eacn county, where the present convention
or the future legislature shall point out and direct.

LVL All persons whatever shall have the free exer-

to^eration. cise of their religion ; provided it be not repugnant to

the peace and safety of the state; and shall not, unless

they consent, support any teacher, or teachers, except

those of their own profession.

LVII. The great seal of this state shall have the fol-
Itsedev1ct!' lowing device : on one side a scroll, whereon shall be
engraved, "The Constitution of the state of Georgia :"
and motto, "Pro bono publico:" on the other side an
elegant house, and other buildings ; fields of corn, and
meadows covered with sheep and cattle : a river running
though the same, with a ship under full sail ; and the
motto, "Dcus nobis hccc otia fecit."

CONSTITUTION OF 1777. 297

LVIII. No person shall be allowed to plead in the
courts of law in this state, except those who are author- ^ttwnfeT °
ized so to do by the House of Assembly ; and if any per
son so authorized shall be found guilty of mal-practice
before the House of Assembly, they shall have power to
suspend them. This is not intended to exclude any per
son from that inherent privilege of every freeman, the
liberty to plead his own cause.

LIN. Excessive fines shall not be levied, nor exces-Fmea and bail
sive bail demanded. excessive-

LN. The principles of the habeas corpus act shall be Habeas corpug
a part of this constitution.

LXI. Freedom of the press, and trial by jury, to re- Freedom of

the press and

main inviolate for ever. t«ai by Jury-

LNII. No clergyman of any denomination shall be al-

OJ J Clergy

lowed a seat in the legislature.

LNIII. No alteration shall be made in this constitu
tion without petitions from a majority of the counties, n£tsto be10"'
and the petitions from each county to be signed by a
majority of voters in each county within the state; at
which time the Assembly shall order a convention to be
called for that purpose, specifying the alterations to be
made, according to the petitions preferred to the Assem
bly by the majority of the counties as aforesaid.

Done at Savannah, in Convention, the fifth day of
February, in the year of our Lord one thousand
seven hundred and seventy-seven, and in the first
year of the independence of the United States of
America.

298 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

On the 8th of August President Bulloch issued thf *wo
following proclamations : —

GEORGIA.

By his Excellency Archibald Bulloch Es
quire President & Commander in Chief of
the said Province

A PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS the present awful Situation of the unite- 1
States of America, at this important juncture, must call
upon all good men to humble themselves before Al
mighty God, and to use their utmost endeavours so to
conduct their lives & conversations, as to conciliate the
divine favor & Protection : And whereas by the tumultu
ous meeting of Xegro Slaves, in and about the Town
of Savannah, & their Practice of buying & selling, the
Lords day is entirely disregarded & profaned and whereas
the Custom of prophane swearing £ blaspheming is too
frequently heard, even on the Sabbath in our Streets,
to the disturbance of all peace and good order & to the
great Offence of Almighty God, I Have, therefore,
thought fit by and with the Advice & consent of the
Council, to issue this my Proclamation, strictly requiring
all civil Officers to do their utmost to preserve the Public
Peace, by taking Proper Notice of all Persons who shall
be guilty of such heinous Offences, that they may be
exemplary punished, according to Law -

Given under my hand & seal the eighth
day of August, one thousand seven hun
dred & seventy six

ARCH3 BULLOCH (L. S.)
By his Excellencys Command
JAMS WHITEEIELD Secry

God Save the Congress —

MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS. 299

GEORGIA :

By his Excellency Archibald Bulloch
Esqr President & Commander in Chief of
the said Province

A PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS there are many persons in the Town & dis
trict of Savannah, that make a practice of retailing Spirit
uous Liquors to the great prejudice of the Health & Wel
fare of the Inhabitants, and whereas these Persons have
no License or permission for doing the same. I have
therefore thought fit. by and with the Advice & consent
of the Council to issue this my Proclamation, strictly for
bidding all Persons from retailing any spirituous Liquors,
unless they first obtain a License for that purpose from
some lawful Magistrate, properly authorized to grant
the same and all Persons whatsoever are hereby strictly
charged & required to Pay full Obedience to this Proc
lamation, as such Persons as do not, will answer the
same, at their Peril.

Given under my Hand & seal this eighth
day of August, one thousand, seven Hun
dred & seventy six

ARCHd BULLOCH (L S)

By His Excellencys Command
JAMS WHITEEIELD Secry

God Save the Congress —

On the 5th of July, 17/6, a committee composed of
Jonathan Bryan, John Houstoun and Colonel M'lntosh,
appointed by President Bulloch at the request of General
Charles Lee to confer with him as to the condition of

300 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

Georgia, submitted to the President and the Council of
Safety the following report :

The Deputies sent by desire of General Lee, from the
Colony of Georgia, to confer with him upon the state
of that Colony and the mode of putting it in the best pos
ture of defence against all enemies, external and internal,
are of opinion, that it is evident that Province is in a
most weak and defenceless situation ; and besides the
intrinsic value of the lands and other property in the
Province, its situation as a frontier, its fine inlets, har
bours, and rivers, and plenty of provisions, make it of
the utmost consequence, perhaps equal to any other on
the Continent, in the great cause of America. That as
it is not only liable to be attacked by sea on the east, in
common with the other Colonies, but from the south and
west, by the garrisoned Province of the Floridas, and
the most numerous tribes of Savages in Xorth America,
and far less able than any of them to bear it : the Depu
ties sent from Georgia, by desire of his Excellency Gen
eral Lee, to confer with him upon the state of the Colony,
in order to devise the best method of putting it in a
proper posture of defence, beg leave to represent, that
from the weak and defenceless situation of the Colony,
surrounded as it is with enemies, it stands in immediate
need of assistance from the General Congress. And when
they consider, that however small the Colony may be of
itself, in a comparative point of view, yet that from the
great plenty of provisions, numerous stocks of cattle,
excellent inlets, harbours, and rivers, perhaps equal to
any upon rhe Continent, with which the Colony abounds,
and above all, the firm attachment of its inhabitants to the
American cause, they are led to trust that the protection
and security of that Colony will be held an object of con
siderable importance. Not one of the thirteen United
Colonies is so weak within or so much exposed without.

MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS. 301

To the east, the inhabitants suffer the ravages of British
cruisers. Their negroes are daily inveigled and carried
away from their plantations. British fleets may be sup
plied with beef from several large islands, well stocked
with cattle, which line their coasts, and round which
ships may sail. To the south, they have the Province of
East Florida, the inhabitants and soldiers of which must
of necessity make inroads upon Georgia for the article
of provision with which they have heretofore chiefly sup
plied. Georgia here stands as a barrier to South Caro
lina, and effectually secures the Province against the
like depredations. The southern parts of Georgia con
tain vast stocks of cattle, and our most valuable rice plan
tations lie that way. By some late computations, there
are said to be upwards of thirty thousand head of black
cattle in the Province, and hogs without number. We
have certain accounts of there being at this time upwards
of one thousand British troops in Saint Augustine. To
the west, and almost down upon the Georgia line, are the
most numerous tribes of Indians now in North America,
viz : the Creeks, Cherokees, Choctaws, and a number of
small tribes, in the whole at least fifteen thousand gun
men. All these nations have been much tampered with
by the emissaries of Government, and without the utmost
exertions of prudence on our side it is feared may be
brought to act against us. They are so situated as to
make it extremely convenient for our enemies to supply
them, from East and West Florida, with ammunition and
every thing that they want. Our last accounts from the
Indians are rather unfavorable, and when we consider
their natural principle of infidelity, and how much more
able our enemies are to purchase their friendship by
presents, &c., than we are, there seems to be the greatest
reason to apprehend a rupture with them. In such a case
the fate of Georgia may be easily conceived. Add to all
these considerations the vast number of negroes we have,

302 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

perhaps of themselves sufficient to subdue us. In point of
numbers, the blacks exceed the whites, and the ready
channel and secure retreat which Saint Augustine afford:-,
render them much to be dreaded. The conquest of Geor
gia would be considered a great acquisition by Great
Britain. It is a most excellent provision country, abounds
with ship timber and lumber of all kinds, and is con
veniently situated for a place of rendezvous to their ship
ping. Under all these circumstances, it must certainly
appear indispensably necessary that measures be im
mediately taken for the defence and security of that Prov
ince. But the low situation, in point of means or ability,
of its inhabitants, puts it out of their power to do it of
themselves, more especially as they have been already
put to a very great expense in consequence of the late
descent upon them. The great objects seem to be men,
fortifications, and a good understanding with the Indians.
We would therefore beg leave to propose —

i st. That his Excellency General Lee be requested to
state the peculiar situation of the Province of Georgia
to the General Congress, and to obtain directions from
them to raise and take into Continental pay so many men
as may be conceived to be sufficient to defend that Prov
ince. In our opinion, less than six battalions will not an
swer the purpose. But we do not conceive any of these
men can be recruited in Georgia. We would apprehend
it full as eligible, if that can be done, to order some of
the regiments already raised, to march thither; and fur
ther, that the four troops of horse already raised be aug
mented to a regiment, and put upon the Continental estab
lishment. Part of these battalions and troops may be so
stationed as to serve equally for the protection of Geor
gia and South Carolina against the Indians ; and above
all, may entirely shut up the communication between
them and our enemies to the southward, which, in our
opinion, will be the most effectual means of preventing
an Indian war.

MISCELLANEOUS PAPERS. 303

2cl. That the sum of sterling be granted by

the General Congress for building fortifications and
guardboats in the Province of Georgia. The reason why
we conceive this ought to be a general charge is, because
it is evident the same will serve against attacks from the
south, and for cutting off the communication between
East and West Florida and the Indians, upon which the
peace of the back inhabitants of Georgia, South Carolina,
North Carolina, and Virginia, depends. Besides, it seems
to be a part of the plan of Administration to throw forces
into the Indian country, where they expect to be joined
by a considerable number of the savages ; and in that
event, there is no Province or place through which they
could so conveniently pass as through Georgia.

3d. It is a fixed principle with the Indians to be paid
for their good offices ; and in this controversy we con
ceive they will expect to be well paid even for neutrality.
The articles they prefer will doubtless be ammunition and
clothing, but these we have not in our power to give then:.
We would then, propose cattle as a substitute, and are
inclined to think, if the communication between them
and our enemies was cut off they would soon be brought
to be well satisfied with a present of this kind. It is
therefore submitted to the General Congress whether it

would not be worth while to give direction that

head of cattle be purchased and distributed among the
Indians by Commissioners. We are of opinion this step
would answer many valuable purposes, and would have
a tendency not only of attaching them to our interest
from gratitude, but would also be a means of civilizing
them, and by fixing the idea of property, would keep them
honest and peaceable with us, for fear of reprisals.

One of the last official acts of President Bulloch was
to issue the following proclamation :

304 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

GEORGIA

By His Excellency Archibald Bnlloch
Esquire, President and Commander in
Chief of the said State

A PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS the Honorable the Continental Congress
have recommended that a day of fasting and Humilia
tion be observed by the several United States of North
America, on such clay as the Assemblies or Conventions
of the said States shall think Proper to appoint. And
Whereas it has pleased Almighty God, to visit this Land
with the dreadful Calamities of civil War, and being
thereby sensible that it is our Indispensible duty, at all
times, but in a more especial manner at this Juncture to
humble ourselves before him and devoutly to implore
his divine goodness to Protect and conduct us happily
through this great conflict, and to restore our Adversaries
to Reason and Justice, and thereby to relieve the United
States from the distresses of an Unnatural War I do
therefore in pursuance of a Resolve of convention issue
this my Proclamation hereby appointing Saturday the
first day of March, to be observed throughout this State,
as a day of fasting and Humiliation, that all the inhabi
tants thereof may devoutly join in fervent Prayer to
Almighty God to avert the Chastisement, we by our mani
fold Sins have deserved, to protect this and all other the
United States; and to implore the Divine blessing upon
the American Anns, both by Sea and land, in this just
and necessary War, which the said several States have
been obliged to .enter into, in maintenance and defence
of their Rights and Privileges and Saturday the said first
clay of March is thus accordingly appointed to be Kept
and observed, of which all Clergymen, and others are

PROCLAMATIONS. 305

desired to take notice, and conduct themselves accord
ingly-
Given under my hand and Seal at Savan
nah the sixth day of February, in the Year
of our Lord, one thousand, seven Hun
dred and seventy seven —

ARCHd BULLOCK L S
By His Excellencys Command
JAMS WHITEFIELD, Sec1"3—

God Save the Congress —

Soon after the convention adjourned, about the last
of February, Archibald Bulloch, President of the Execu
tive Council, Chief Magistrate of the State, and perhaps
its most valuable citizen, died. He had done more for
the cause of liberty than any other Georgian, and was
the leader of the patriots so long as he lived.

After the promulgation of the Constitution it was
necessary that a legislature, elected according to its re
quirements, be assembled to carry its provisions into
effect. Button Gwinnett, who had, upon the death of
President Bulloch, been elected President and Com-
mander-in-Chief by the Council of Safety, issued his
proclamation ordering elections in all the counties for
members of a legislature to convene in Savannah on the
8th day of May, 1777. Elections were accordingly held,
and the legislature met at the time and place designated
in the President's proclamation.

One of its first duties was to elect a Governor. Button
Gwinnett, President of the Council, was a candidate and

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was opposed by John Adam Treutlen. Treutlen was
elected by a large majority. Prior to this, \vhen it was
resolved to raise a brigade for the continental service,
Gwinnett had aspired to its command, but Col. Lachlan
Mclntosh was given the commission. Again, when Gwin
nett, as President of the Council and Commander-in-
Chief of Georgia, by virtue of this office,, contemplated
an expedition against East Florida, he claimed the right
to command all the troops, as well the continental as
those of the state, to the exclusion of General Mclntosh,
who held his commission from the Continental Congress,
thereby virtually denying to Mclntosh the right to com
mand his own regiment. In consequence of these occur
rences these two men, both valuable to the state, became
inveterate enemies, and when Treutlen defeated Gwin
nett for Governor, Mclntosh manifested much gratifica
tion and said openly that Gwinnett was a scoundrel and
that he was glad of his defeat. This coming to Gwin-
nett's ears he challenged Mclntosh for a duel. The chal
lenge wras accepted and they met at a point, still pointed
out, within the corporate limits of Savannah. Both fell
at the first fire, severely wounded. Mclntosh recovered,
but Gwinnett died in a few days. Thus two parties were
formed in Georgia, a Mclntosh party and a Gwinnett
party, much to the injury of the cause of liberty. At the
same time that Treutlen was elected Governor, Noble
Jones was elected Speaker of the House of Assembly
and Jonathan Bryan, John Houstoun, Thomas Chisolm,
William Holzendorf, John Fulton, John Jones, John
Walton, William Few, Arthur Fort, John Coleman, Ben
jamin Andrew and William Peacock, members of the
Executive Council.

The only proclamation of President Gwinnett, still
preserved among the State Archives, is the following:

PROCLAMATIONS. 307

GEORGIA

By the Honorable Button Gwinnett Esqr
President and Commander in chief of the
said State

A PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS in the present alarming situation of this
State, it is absolutely necessary to do every thing in our
Power to prevent any Intelligence, or Supplies being car
ried to our Enemies; I have therefore thought fit, by
virtue of the Power vested in me to issue this Proclama
tion, hereby enjoining and requiring all and every Officer,
concerned in cleaning out Ships and Vessels, in any of
the Ports or Harbours of this State, not to give any
clearance, to any Ship Vessel or Boat, within any of the
Ports, or Harbours aforesaid; and I do also forbid, and
Prohibit and all and every Master or Commander of any
ship, Vessel or Boat within any of the Ports, or Har
bours aforesaid, and all Pilots and other Persons what
soever, to attempt to carry out to Sea any Ship, Vessel
or Boat, until further Orders shall be given herein.

Given under my Hand and Seal at Sa
vannah, the fifth day of March, one thous
and, seven hundred and seventy seven

BUTTON GWINNETT (L S)
By His Honours Command

JAMES WHITEEIELD, Secretary.

God save the Congress

308 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

In the winter of 1776, while Gwinnett was President
of Georgia, the legislature of South Carolina passed a
resolution declaring that "the strength, wealth and dig
nity" of both would be promoted by a union of the two
states of South Carolina and Georgia, and appointed a
committee, of which William Henry Drayton was the
spokesman, to go to Savannah where the Constitutional
Convention of Georgia was in session and secure the as
sent of Georgia to the proposition. Mr. Drayton and his
committee, early in January, 1777, repaired to Savannah
and asked a hearing on the floor of the convention. The
request was courteously granted and Mr. Drayton sub
mitted his proposition to the body, supporting it by an
earnest appeal, assigning a number of reasons why Geor
gia should agree to be absorbed by South Carolina, some
of which were ridiculously absurd. But his argument
failed to convince the Georgians, and they respectively
declined his proposition. Button Gwinnett, President of
Georgia, vigorously opposed the union, and to him Dray
ton attributed the failure of his mission and made scur
rilous attacks on him, the convention and the other
officials of Georgia. After Gwinnett's untimely death
Drayton and his coadjutors, believing that the principal
obstacle in the way of the success of their scheme had
been removed, circulated a paper among the people of
Georgia reflecting on the state officials, magnifying their
grievances and their dangers, and urging them, since
their officials would not do so, to take such action as
would bring about the union of the two states. The
Executive Council, to put a stop to such machinations to
provoke discord and distrust in the minds of the people,
advised Governor Treutlen to offer a reward of a hun
dred pounds for the arrest of Drayton and his allies, and
accordingly the Governor issued the following proclama
tion:

PROCLAMATIONS. 309

"GEORGIA.

By his Honour JOHN ADAM TREUTLEN, ESQUIRE, Cap
tain-General, Governour, and Commander-in-Chief in
and over the said State.

A PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS it hath been represented unto me, that
WILLIAM HENRY DRAYTON, of the State of South
Carolina, Esq., and divers other persons, whose names
are yet unknown, are UNLAWFULLY endeavouring
to POISON the minds of the good people of this State
against the Government thereof, and for that purpose are,
by letters, petitions, and otherwise, daily exciting ani
mosities among the inhabitants, under the pretence of
redressing imaginary grievances, which by the said
WILLIAM HENRY DRAYTON it is said this State labours
under, the better to effect, under such specious pretences,
an union between the States of Georgia and South Caro
lina, all which are contrary to the Articles of Confedera
tion, entered into, ratified, and confirmed by this State
as a cement of union between the same and the other
United and Independent States of America, and also
against the resolution of the Convention of this State in
that case made and entered into: THEREFORE, that
such pernicious practices may be put an end to, and which,
if not in due time prevented, may be of the most danger
ous consequences, I HAVE, by and with the advice and
consent of the Executive Council of this State, thought
fit to issue this Proclamation, hereby offering a reward
of ONE HUNDRED POUNDS, lawful money of the
said State, to be paid to any person or persons who shall
apprehend the said WILLIAM HENRY DRAYTON,
or any other person or persons aiding and abetting him
in such unlawful practices, upon his or their conviction :
AND I Do hereby strictly charge and require all magis
trates and other persons to be vigilant and active in

310 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

SUPPRESSING THE SAME, and to take all lawful
ways and means for the discovering and apprehending
of such offender or offenders, so that he or they may be
brought to condign punishment.

Given under my Hand and Seal in the Council Cham
ber at Savannah, this fifteenth day of July, one
thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven.

JOHN ADAM TREUTLEN. (L S)
By his Honour's Command,
JAMES WHITEEIELD, Secretary.

God Save the Congress —

Drayton and the Carolinians who were engaged in this
effort to absorb Georgia were very indignant at this ac
tion and at Georgia because she refused to be absorbed.
But the proclamation put a stop to their effort and the
little province which refused to surrender its autonomy
became in three generations "The Empire State of the
South."

During this year, 1777, much alarm was felt in the
state because of the scarcity of provisions for the sup
port of the people and the army, and Governor Treutlen,
to prevent actual want, prohibited by proclamation the
exportation from the state of corn, rice, flour and all
other provisions necessary to support human life.

Still preserved among the Achives of the State we
find the following proclamation issued by Governor
Treutlen.

GEORGIA

• By His Honour JOHN ADAM TREUTEEN
Esquire, Captain General & Commander in
Chief in and over the said State

PROCLAMATIONS. 311

A PROCLAMATION
(LS)
JOHN A TREUTLEN

WHEREAS it hath been represented to me, by the Gen
eral Assembly of this State, that a Proclamation, ought
to be issued, to quiet the Minds of the Frontier Inhabi
tants of this State declaring the purposes for which the
intended Congress with the Creek Indians is to be held;
That the same has been called by the desire of the Con
tinental Congress in order to establish a firm and safe
Peace, between them the Creek Indians, and the United
State; and this State in particular; that there is a very-
great prospect of concluding the same on proper terms;
an Object which must be desirable, but more especially to
those of our Inhabitants who are on our Frontiers ; and
consequently more immediately exposed to their Ravages,
requesting and recommending their Co-operating and
assisting the Assembly, and the executive Powers of the
State as far as in them lies in their present Endeavours
to conclude a Peace, with those Indians, when the utmost
exertion of our whole Strength is wanted against our
Southern Enemies, it being so necessary at this time as
suring them that if a Peace on Proper Conditions Hon
orable to this, and the United States, cannot be estab
lished with the said Indians, but that a War must neces
sarily ensue, that, in such case the Inhabitants, residing
on the Frontiers of this State, may be assured, that the
said General Assembly will afford them the most early
and effectual Assistance in their Power to defend and
protect them from those merciless Savages

I have therefore thought fit, by and with, the Advice
and Consent of the executive Council to issue this my
Proclamation, notifying to all whom it may concern—

312 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

Given under my Hand and Seal at Sa
vannah, the fourth day of June 1 777

By His Honours Command
JAMS WHITEFIELD Sec'7

God Save the Congress — •

GEORGIA

By His Honor John Adam Treutlen Es
quire Captain General, Governor and Com
mander in Chief, in and over the said
State

A PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS it hath been represented to me in Council,
that a great scarcity of Corn is likely to ensue in this State
and that the Price of that Article is and has been for
some time past considerably above Two shillings and
six pence ^ bushel — I have therefore thought Proper,
by and with the Advice of the Honorable the Council, to
issue this my Proclamation, hereby forbidding the ex
portation of Corn out of this State, and all and every
Person or Persons whom so ever are required not to
carry or convey out of this State, any quantity of Corn
whatsoever, until leave for that purpose be first had and
obtained from me, or others having power to grant the
same

Given under my Hand and Seal at Sa
vannah this 12th day of June 1777

JOHN A. TREUTLEN (L S)
By His Honours Command
JAMS WHITEFIELD Secry

God Save the Congress —

PROCLAMATIONS. 313

GEORGIA

By His Honor John Adam Treutlen Es
quire, Captain, General, Governor and
Commander in Chief, in and over the State
aforesaid :

A PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS number of persons pretend to hold, or have
titles to Lands, within this State, either by allotment,
grant or otherwise, but have left this State, and neglected
to Settle and cultivate said lands — I have therefore
thought fit by and with the Advice of the Honorable the
Council to issue this my Proclamation, requesting all such
Persons to return to this. State, within six Months from
the date of this Proclamation, and to settle and cultivate
such Lands, otherwise the same shall be and is by an
Act of Assembly passed the seventh day of this Instant
June, deemed to be vacant, and liable to be granted to
any Person or Persons applying for and entituled to the
same

Given under my Hand and Seal at Sa
vannah, the 12th day of June, in the year
of our Lord 17/7

JOHN A. TREUTLEN (L S)
By His Honours Command
JAMS WHITEEIELD Secry

God Save the Congress.

GEORGIA

By His Honor John Adam Treutlen Esqr
Captain General, Governor and Com
mander in Chief in and over the said State

314 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

A PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS. Matters of the greatest importance to this
State renders it absolutely necessary to call the Assembly
together.

I have therefore thought fit, by and with the Advice
of the Honourable the Executive Council to issue this
my Proclamation requiring the meeting of the said As
sembly at Savannah, on Tuesday the nineteenth day of
August next, then and there to deliberate upon, transact
and manage Business, as they shall think is most Salutary
and advantageous to themselves and Constituents

Given under my Hand and Seal, in the
Council Chamber at Savannah this fif
teenth day of July 1777 —

JOHN A. TREUTLEN (L S)
By His Honours Command
JAMS WHITEEIELD Secry

God Save the Congress —

GEORGIA

By His Honor JOHN ADAM TREUTLEN
Esquire Captain General, Governor and
Commander in Chief in and over the Said
State

A PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS it hath been represented unto me, that Wil
liam Henry Drayton of the State of South Carolina Esqr
and divers other Persons, whose 'Names are yet unknown,
are unlawfully endeavouring to poison the Minds of the
good People of this State, against the Government there
of, and for that purpose, are by Letters, Petitions and

PROCLAMATIONS. 315

otherwise daily exciting Animosities among the Inhabi
tants, under pretence of redressing imaginary Grievances,
which by the said \Yilliam Henry Drayton, it is said,
this State labours under, the better to effect under such
Specious Pretences, an Union between the States of Geor
gia and South Carolina, all which doings, are contrary to
the Articles of Confederation, entered into, ratifyed and
confirmed by this State; as a Cement of Union, between
the same, and the other united and independent States of
America, and also against the Resolution of the Conven
tion of this State — in that Case made and entered into
Therefore, that such Pernicious Practices may speedily
be put an end to, and which if not in due time prevented,
may be of the most dangerous consequences I HAVE
by and with the Advice and Consent of the executive
Council of this State, thought fit to issue this Proclama
tion hereby offering a Reward of One Hundred Pounds,
lawful Money of the said State, to be paid to any person
or Persons who shall apprehend, the said William Henry
Drayton, or any other Person or Persons, aiding or abet
ting him in such unlawful practices upon his or their
Conviction —

And I do hereby strictly, charge and require all Mag
istrates, and other Persons to be vigilant and active in
suppressing the same, and to take all lawful ways and
means for the discovering and apprehending of such
Offender or Offenders, so that He or they may be brought
to Condign punishment

Given under my Hand and Seal in the
Council Chamber at Savannah, this fif
teenth clay of July 1777—

JOHN A. TREUTLEN (L S)

By His Honours Command
JAM" WHITEEIELD Secrr

God Save the Congress.

316 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

GEORGIA

By His Honor John Adam Treutlen Esqr
Captain General, Governor and Com
mander in Chief of the State of Georgia

A PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS information hath been made, that divers
persons in this State, and particularly those in the town
of Savannah, are daily exporting divers goods, Wares
and Merchandiz that have heretofore been imported into
the same, which if permitted, will subject the Inhabitants
of the said State to many difficulties and inconveniences ;
I have therefore, by and with the Advice and Consent of
the executive Council of the State aforesaid, thought fit,
to issue this Proclamation and do hereby strictly prohibit
and forbid the Exportation of any such goods, wares
and Merchandize from this State without leave first had
and obtained for that purpose

And I do strictly charge and require all Officers and
others to be vigilant and active in the discovery of any
Offender or Offenders against this Proclamation

Given under my Hand and Seal in the
Council Chamber at Savannah, the twenty
first day of July, in the Year of our Lord
1777.

JOHN A. TREUTLEN. L S

By His Honours Command
JAMS WHITEFIELD Secry

God Save the State.

PROCLAMATIONS. 317

GEORGIA

By His Honor John Adam Treutlen Es
quire, Captain General, Governor and
Commander in Chief of the State of Geor
gia.

A PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS the General Assembly of this State, have
resolved, that all Persons, within the Same, who are in
debted, to the inhabitants of Great Britain, Ireland, and
the British West Indies Islands (Bermuda excepted)
shall when required, by the Governor and Council of this
State, render a true, and exact account, to the best of
their knowledge, of the several Sums of Money, and
ballances, upon Account, that may be by them, due and
owing to the inhabitants as aforesaid. And also if re
quired, to give good and sufficient Security in Propor
tion to the sums of Money they owe, to the said inhabi
tants, not to remit the same, or any part thereof, during
the present contest, between Great Britain and America,
without Leave first had and obtained for that purpose.
I have therefore by and with the Advice of the executive
Council of the State of Georgia aforesaid, thought fit,
to make known the said Resolution, hereby charging and
requiring, all and every Person and Persons, within this
State, that are indebted to any of the inhabitants of
Great Britain, Ireland, and the British West India Is
lands, within One Month from the date hereof, to render
in, an exact account to the best of their Knowledge, of
the several Sums of Money and ballances, upon Account,
that may be by them due and owing to the Inhabitants
as aforesaid, and also if required to give good and suffi
cient Security not to remit, or pay the said Sums of
Money, or any part thereof, during the present contest,
without leave first had and obtained for that purpose;

318 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

in default whereof, proper measures, will be taken to en
force the resolution of the General Assembly aforesaid

Given under my hand and Seal, in the
Council Chamber, at Savannah, the twenty
fifth day of September, in the Year of our
Lord 1777

JOHN A. TREUTLEN (L S)
By His Honours Command
JAMS WHITEFIELD Secry

God Save the State.

GEORGIA

By His Honor JOHN ADAM TREUTLEN
Esquire, Captain General, Governor, and
Commander in Chief, in and over the State
aforesaid

A PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS it has been represented to me, in Council,
that divers persons have purchased, and are daily pur
chasing, the rights and titles of lands in this State, of
the Soldiers, and others, engaged in the Service of their
Country, and who hereafter may be intitled to Grants
for the said Lands, for such Service, agreeable to their
respective Ranks and Stations And whereas, such Meas
ures, if allowed, will prevent, the increase of inhabitants,
in the frontier parts of this State, and the better Settling
thereof, and the salutary Means, intended by such future
Gifts and Grants, frustrated by wricked and designing
Men, to the great injury of the Inhabitants of this State,
in General, and the safety and wellfare thereof, and con-

PROCLAMATIONS. 319

trary to an Act of Assembly, in that case made and pro
vided : I have therefore by and with the Advice, and con
sent of the Honorable the executive Council of this State,
issued this proclamation, hereby strictly forbiding all per
sons from purchasing the pretended head right, or title of
any Soldier, or other Person or Persons, as such Person
or Persons, so purchasing such title, will not have any
Tract, or body of land granted him of them from any
such purchase, the same being contrary to, and in direct
violation, of the said Act of Assembly, and other Regula
tions, in that case made and provided

Given under my Hand and Seal, in the
Council chamber at Savannah, the seven
teenth day of October, One thousand seven
Hundred and Seventy Seven

JOHN A. TREUTLEN (L S)
By His Honors Command
JAM" WHITEEIELD Secry

God Save the State.

GEORGIA

By His Honor John Adam Treutlen Es
quire Captain General, Governor and Com
mander in Chief, in and 'over the State
aforesaid

A PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS it is expedient and necessary, to prevent the
exportation of Salt and Cordage from this State, for a
limited time: I have therefore thought fit, by and with
the Advice and consent of the Honorable executive Coun-

320 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

cil to issue this proclamation prohibiting and I do here
by accordingly prohibit the exportation of Salt and Cord
age from any port or place within this State, to any other
State or place, for the space of three Months, next en
suing the date hereof; and all Officers and others are
hereby strictly charged and Commanded to pay due
Obedience to this Proclamation, as they will answer the
contrary at their Peril

Given under my Hand and Seal, in the
Council Chamber at Savannah, the twenty
first day of November, One thousand,
Seven hundred, and seventy seven

JOHN A. TREUTLEN (L S)
By His Honors Command
JAMS WHITEFIELD Secry

God Save the State.

STATE OF GEORGIA

By His Honor John Adam Treutlen Es
quire Captain General, Governor and
Commander in Chief in and over the State
aforesaid

A PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS it is recommended by the Honorable the
Continental Congress, that Thursday the Eighteenth day
of this Instant be Set apart for solemn thanksgiving and
praise to Almighty God for benefits received "And For-
"asmuch as it is the indispensible duty of all Men to
"adore the superintending providence of Almighty God,
"to acknowledge with gratitude their obligation to him

PROCLAMATIONS. 321

"for benefits received, and to implore such further bless
ings as they stand in need of; and it having pleased
"him, in his abundant mercy, not only to continue to us
"the inumerable Bounties of his common Providence, but
"also to Smile upon us, in the prosecution of a just and
"necessary War, for the defence and establishment of our
"unalienable rights and liberties, particularly in that He
"hath been pleased in so great a measure to prosper the
"means used for the support of our Troops and to crown
"our Arms with most Signal success''-

I do therefore issue this proclamation, with the Advice
and consent, of the Honorable the executive Council of
this State, hereby appointing "Thursday the Eighteenth
"day of this Instant december to be set apart for solemn
"thanksgiving and praise, that at one Time, and with
"one Voice the good people may express the grateful
"feelings of their Hearts and consecrate themselves to
"the Service of their divine benefactor ; and that together
"and with their sincere acknowledgements and offerings,
"they may join the penitent confession of their manifold
"Sins, whereby they had forfeited every favour; and
"their humble and earnest supplication, that it may please
"God, through the merits of Jesus Christ, mercifully to
"forgive and blot them out of remembrance, that it
"may please him graciously to afford his Blessing on the
"governments of these States respectively, and prosper
"the Public Council of the whole, to inspire our Com-
"manders, both by land and Sea, and all under them,
"with that wisdom, and fortitude, which may render them
"fit instruments, under the Providence of Almighty God,
"to secure for these United States the greatest of all
"human blessings, independence and Peace, that it may
"please him to prosper the trade and manufactures of
"the People, and the labour of the Husbandman that our
"Land may yet yield its increase, to take Schools and

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322 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

"Seminaries of education, so necessary for cultivating
"the principles of true liberty, virtue and piety, under his
"nurturing Hand, and to prosper the means of religion
"for the promotion and enlargement of that Kingdom,
"which consisteth /;/ righteousness. Peace and jo\ in the
"Holy Ghost." And whereas the said Honorable Con-
"tinental Congress further recommends that Servile
"Labour, and such Recreation as ( though at other Times
"innocent) may be unbecoming the Purpose of this Ap
pointment, may be omitted -on so solemn an occasion;"
of which all the Freemen, and others, are directed to
take Xotice, and Conduct themselves accordingly. And
Thursday the said Eighteenth day of this Instant Decem
ber is thus appointed to be kept ami observed, of which
the Clergy in special, will, in the mean time, prepare dis
courses, suitable to the Occasion.

Given under my Hand and Seal, in the
Council Chamber, at Savannah, the Elev
enth day of December, in the year of our
Lord, one thousand seven Hundred, and
seventy seven

JOHN A. TREUTLEN (L S>
By His Honors Command
JAMES "\YHITEFIELD Secry

God Save the State.

This, the first legislature under the constitution, was
in session almost continuously, with an occasional recess,
'till the middle of September, and enacted quite a num
ber of laws necessary to put the new government in op
eration and the state in the best possible posture of
defense, the most important of which were

PROCLAMATIONS. 323

"An Act defining treason."

"An Act to discourage desertion and to punish such
persons as shall harbor or conceal deserters."

"An Act for the expulsion of the internal enemies of
this State."

"An Act to opui the courts of la\v and for the better
settling and strengthening this state."

"An Act to extend and enforce the authority of the
several laws heretofore passed in the then province
now state of Georgia to and throughout the territory
thereof."

"An Act to regulate Superior Courts."
"An Act regulating pilotage."

"An Act to enforce the collection of arrears due from
persons keeping taverns, punch houses and billiard
tables and retailers of spirituous liquors.''

"An Act to prevent gaming and horse racing."

"An Act to regulate and extend the trade and com
merce of this state and to establish an insurance
office."

"An Act to amend an act to establish a land office."

"An Act obliging and making liable negro slaves to
work on forts and other public works."

"An Act to amend and to empower commissioners or
surveyors to lay out. make and repair roads already
laid out or may hereafter be necessary, and also to
clear the rivers." etc.

324 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

"An Act to regulate captures and seizures made in this
state or on the high seas under and by virtue of the
resolves and regulations of congress."

"An Act to regulate the commissaries appointed by
. this state and to prevent abuses in the said depart
ments."

"An Act for raising sixty six thousand pounds for the
use and support of the government of the state of
Georgia for the year 1777."

"An Act to appoint commissioners of the land office."

All these Acts are published in our volume of Colonial
and Revolutionary Acts.

The second legislature met at Savannah on the 6th of
January, 17/8. On the loth John Houstoun was elected
Governor for one year, as provided in the constitution.

Soon after Governor Houstoun's election he under
took, in connection with General Howe, an expedition
against Saint Augustine, which was a place of refuge
for the Tories and all the disaffected elements in Georgia
and South Carolina, and a constant menace to Georgia.
The expedition was, however, a disastrous failure, as had
been a similar expedition undertaken by Gwinnett two
years before.

Of Houstoun's legislature there is in existence no
Journal, but there are, in the Archives of the State, one
of his proclamations and a number of enrolled acts. The
proclamation is as follows :

"GEORGIA By the Honourable John Houstoun Es
quire Captain General Governor and Com
mander in Chief of the State aforesaid

PROCLAMATIONS. 325

A PROCLAMATION

WHEREAS the General Assembly of this State have
Resolved that the Exportation of Salt be prohibited for
a limited time, I do therefore with the advice of the Hon
orable the Executive Council Issue this Proclamation to
make known the said Resolution and Do hereby Strictly
forbid and Prohibit the Exportation of Salt from any
Port or Place within this State without my Permission,
for one Month from the date hereof, And all Officers and
others are Strictly enjoined and Required to pay due
Obedience hereto, as they will answer the Contrary at
their Peril

Given under my hand
and Seal in the Council
Chamber at Savannah

By his Honours Command the 29th day of January

in the Year of our Lord

JAS MAXWELL, Secy One Thousand Seven

Hundred and Seventy
Eight

JOHN HOUSTOUN (LS)"

Some of the most important of these acts are as fol
lows : —

"An Act for attainting such persons as are therein
mentioned of high treason, and for confiscating their
estates, both real and personal," etc.

"An Act to compel non-residents to return within a
certain time, or in default thereof that their estates be
confiscated," etc.

326 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

"An Act for the better ordering and regulating the
militia of this State."

The first named act, approved March i, 1778, is herein
inserted, and is followed by the retaliatory acts passed
by the royal legislature in Savannah after that city had
been retaken by the British and Sir James Wright had
returned and re-established, for a time, the royal gov
ernment in that part of the State.

Subsequently, in May, 1782, after the British had been
hemmed up in Savannah, the patriots having driven them
from all other parts of the state, a second act of attainder
was passed by the patriot legislature at Augusta. This
act is also inserted here immediately after the two acts
passed by the royal legislature of 1780. Thus the reader
will see at a glance all the laws enacted by both the royal
and the republican legislatures on the subjects of dis
qualification, treason, confiscation and banishment.

(State Archives.)
AN ACT

for attainting such persons as are therein mentioned
of high Treason, and for Confiscating their Estates, both
real and personal to the use of this State ; for establish
ing boards of Commissioners for the sale of such Es
tates, and for other purposes therein mentioned. —

WHKREAS the king of Great Britain, did on the Nine
teenth day of April which was in the Year of our Lord
one thousand seven hundred and seventy five, Commence
a cruel and unjust War against the good people of
America with intent to reduce them under subjection to
a state of lawless sway and absolute despotism in Viola
tion of the Antcient Constitution and utterly subversive
of the same: And Whereas the said King in order to

GEORGIA ACT OF ATTAINDER, 1778. 327

carry the said flagitious and destructive system of Gov
ernment into full effect did send a body of his Troops on
the aforesaid clay and Year, which Troops did Wantonly
Attack and Murder the peaceable Inhabitants of America
Whereby the said King- did forfeit and forefault every
right and title to the Allegiance of the said people, and
by other and Various methods did do away and destroy
the great end of all Civil institutions, the public good ;
And Whereas the powers of Government incapable of
Annihilation did devolve upon the people for exercise of
the same, and the said people, did ( as of right and Jus
tice they ought) enter into a full exercise thereof for
their common safety and happiness. And Whereas at a
General Congress held at Philadelphia a decleration of
the Antient and inherant rights of the people recognizing
the above principles of Government and the Necessity of
a final seperation and dissolution of all political connec
tion with the King and Realm of England took place on
the fourth day of July one thousand seven hundred and
seventy Six, Asserting the thirteen United Colonies to
be free, and Independent States, and in full and Absolute
possession of every supreme power which free and Inde
pendent States and powers do and Ought of Right to
enjoy, which decleration not only confirmed the powers
of the Seperate States, but plainly and Manifestly recog
nized the Justice and political Necessity of Assuming and
exercising the powers which reverted to, and devolved
upon the people on the breach which was made by the
said King of Great Britain on the said nineteenth day of
April in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hun
dred and seventy five, in the original contract which sub
sisted between him and the people; And Whereas it is
both just and Constitutional that all and every Allegiance
and other duty which was due from ti|e good people of
America on the said Nineteenth day of April which was
in the Year one thousand seven hundred and seventy
five should be immediately transferred and Accordingly

328 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

were by means of the said breach transferred from the
said King to the powers which Assumed the rights and
exercise of Government in this State : And whereas
various persons Inhabitants of this State in contempt
of the said Allegiance And duty so transferred as afore
said did traiterously avoid the same, and led away by
their wicked devices did contumaciously aid, abet, assist
and comfort the Troops and Vassals of the said Britanick
King then ravaging and plundering the Coasts and
Towns of America, and by every savage and inhuman
practice, murdering and destroying the good people of
the same; and whereas it is but reasonable and just
that the Estates both real and personal of all such per
sons residing within this State, on, or since, the said
Nineteenth day of April who have refused their Alle
giance to the Governing powers of the same should be
forfeited and Confiscated, which forfeitures and confisca
tions are further Recommended by Congress to be car
ried into immediate execution. With intent therefore
that effectual Justice may be done, and all such defections
and treasons meet with their due punishments, and also
that the same may be prevented in future.

Be it enacted by the Representatives of the freemen
of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it
is hereby enacted by the Authority of the Same. That

Sir James Wright, William Johnson,

John Graham, John Lightenstone,

Henry Yonge Jr v John Mulryne,

William Moss, Josiah Tattnall,

Robert Smith, William M'Gillivray,

James Hume, John Joachin Zubly,

William John Yonge, George Kincaid,

Cha8 Wm McKennin, John Hume,

George Barry, Joseph Farley,

Alexander Wylly, Robert Reid,

GEORGIA ACT OF ATTAINDER, 1778- 329

Thomas Reid,

John Bond Randell,

Henry Yonge Senr,

Philip Yonge,

James Robertson,

Jas Brown school master,

David Johnston,

Alexander M'Goun,

William Simes,

John Inglis,

John M'Donald (Taylor)

William Ross, (late of

Saint Andrews Parish)
Daniel McCleod,
Alexander Baillie,
Alexander M'Donald,
David Ross,
Daniel M'Donald,
Roderick M'Intosh,
Angus Bacon,
Thomas Young,
Simon Munro,
Simon Patterson,
William Lyford,
Rob1 Baillie,
James Kitching,
Roger Kelsall,
James Spalding,
Robert Porteous,
Alexander Creighton,
Robert Moodie,
William Clark (late of Sl

Andrews Parish)
James Chapman,
Charles Watts,
William Bosomworth,

Sampson Williams,
Garrit Vinsant,
George Vinsant,
Daniel McGurth,
James M°Gurth,
George Proctor,
James Shivers,
Peter Dean,
Thomas Johnston,
George Borland,
James Johnston,
James Downey.
William Trentfield,
George McCaully,
John Jamieson,
Andrew Hewitt,
George Baillie,
George Webb,
John Love ( of Effingham

County)

Joseph Johnston,
John Johnston,
George Wilds,
William Love,
Charles Hall.
James Moore,
Samuel Moore,
John Hubbard,
Matthew Marshal,
Joseph Marshal,
Thomas Brown, late of

the ceded lands,
Thomas Scott, (late of the

ponds on Ogechee \Vilkes

County )
Wra Fraser.

330 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

Timothy Hollingsworth, William Okies,

Valentine Hollingsworth, William Colville (pilot)

William M°Donald, John Murray,

John McDonald, Anthony Stokes,

John Speier, John Wood, (late of Sa-

John Martin, (of Jekyl Isl- vannah, Merchant)

and) James Edward Powell,

John Frost, Jermyn Wright,

William Frost, Charles Wright,

Cornelius Dunn, Thomas Eatton,

John Dunn, James Tayler, (Merchant)

John Pettinger, George Finch,

Robert Abrams, (hatter) Philip Moore,
Joseph Rains ( late of theWilliam Panton,

Parish of Sl David) John Simpson ( Sabine
Basil Cowper Junr, fields)

Thomas Stringer, Charles M'Culloch, (late of
John Hopkins (Pilot) Savannah)

be attainted and Adjudged guilty of high Treason
Against this State, and they are hereby attainted and ad
judged guilty of the same Accordingly.

And be it further enacted by the Authority afore
said that in case any or either of the persons above
named, and who are herein and hereby attainted of high
Treason shall hereafter Return to this State, or be taken
in Arms against the Authority of this State, or the
United States, and shall be brought within the limits of
this State, such person or persons shall be subject to
arrest, imprisonment and trial for the crime of high
treason, and shall on conviction thereof in any Court of
record where by the laws of this State, such person or
persons shall be triable, Receive sentence and judgment
of death, and shall suffer Accordingly.

And whereas such persons as have forfeited the per-

GEORGIA ACT OF ATTAINDER, 1778. 331

sonal protection of, and been Guilty of high Treason
Against the State, Contrary to their duty and Allegiance
to the same, do also incur the forfeiture of their prop
erty And possessions both real and personal, and it being
highly reasonable that the Estates real and personal of
traitors who are hereby Attainted should be discovered,
and Applied to the use of the good people of this State,
in the most speedy and effectual manner, and that due
provision be made for the satisfaction of. all just and
lawful claims which any of the good friends of this State
may have to. out of, or upon the Estates of such dis
affected persons and Traitors;

Be it therefore further Enacted by the Authority
aforesaid that all and every the lands and heritages,
debts or sums of money, and goods and Chatties what
soever, and generally the goods Chatties and effects,
heritable and moveable, real and personal, of what Na
ture or kind soever they be, within this State, whereof
any person or persons, who, since the said Nineteenth
day of April which was in the Year of our Lord, one
thousand seven hundred and seventy five, is, or are here
by attainted and adjudged guilty of high Treason against
this State for levying \Yar against the same, or con
spiring against its safety, or for any other high Treason
whatsoever committed since the said Nineteenth day of
_\pril in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hun
dred and seventy five, within this State, or elsewhere,
was, were, or shall have been seized or possessed of, or
interested in, or intitled unto on the said nineteenth day
of April in the Year of our Lord, one thousand seven
hundred and seventy five — or at any time afterwards, in
his her or their own right, or to his her or their own
use, or whereof, any other person or persons, was were
or shall have been seized, and possessed of, or interested
in or intitled unto, to the use or in trust for them, or any
of them, shall According to the several and Respective

332 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

Estates, and interests, which the said person or persons
attainted since the said Nineteenth day of April in the
Year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and
seventy five, or any in trust for them, or any of them,
had or shall have had therein as aforesaid, or did, or
might, or shall forfeit by such attainder, stand and be
forfeited to this State, and shall be deemed vested, and
Adjudged, and is, and are hereby declared and enacted
to be in the real and Actual possession of the Govern
ment thereof without any office of Inquisition thereof
hereafter to be taken or found, and without any declara
tion of forfeiture to be obtained.

And to the end that all the Estates of the said Traitors
of what nature soever within this State hereby or other
wise vested, or hereby intended to be vested in this State,
and the Yearly and other Values thereof, and all incum-
brances thereupon, may be the better discovered, known
and described, and Ascertained, and that the same may
be secured, sold and disposed of, and that in the mean
time, the rents issues and profits thereof may be recovered
and brought in, for the use of and to defray the Grevious
and heavy expences accrued in defending this state
against the attacks of its cruel invaders; and that due
examination be taken, and satisfaction be made of all
just and lawful claims to, upon or out of the said Es
tates or any of them :

Be it therefore further Enacted by the Authority
aforesaid that five persons be appointed by the ballot of
this House to act as a board of Commissioners in each
County within this State, except as herein is hereafter
excepted that is to say: For the County of Chatham
George Walton, Thomas Stone, John M'Cleur, Edward

Davis and Ambrose Wright : For the County of

Effingham John Postell, Henry Wood, Jacob Cronen-
berger, Joshua Peirce and Archibald Patterson :

GEORGIA ACT OF ATTAINDER, 1778. 333

For the County of Burke, John Thomas, Abraham Jones,,
Blessingham Harvy, Joseph Gresham and William Lev-
ingston : - — For the County of Richmond, Robert
Walton, Seth John Cuthbert, Benjamin Few, \Villiam

Glascock, and William Jackson: For the County of

W7ilkes Solomon Nusum Junr, Richard Aycock, George
Wells, Daniel Colman and Barnard Herd :— - For the
County's of Liberty, Glynn and Camden, Benjamin
Baker, John Sandiford, Francis Brown, Moses Way and
William Peacock : — - And any three or More of such
Commissioners in each County shall Constitute a board,
and shall exercise the powers and duties by this Act given
and required; And each board so Constituted and ap
pointed as aforesaid is hereby authorized empowered,
and required, to enquire into all such Estates both real
and personal within their respective Counties, as are here
by, or otherwise Vested, or hereby intended to be vested
in this State; and to cause all and every the rents issues
and profits thereof, until sale shall be made, to be effect
ually levied and paid to the respective boards; and to
levy, raise, secure and cause to be sold by the sheriff or
such other person, as shall be appointed by the respective
Boards of each County, all such Estates both real and
personal, and other personal Chattels and Estates
hereby or intended hereby to be vested in this
State, situate and being within each County re
spectively; and all such rents, issues and profits,
and all monies arising from such sales shall be
paid to the respective boards, and by the re
spective boards shall be deposited in the Treasury of this
State, to be disposed of, used, or employed to such pur
poses and uses as the Legislature of this State, shall or
der and direct; and all persons claiming, or pretending
to claim any Estate, right, title, or Interest in, to, or out
of the said Estates hereby, or intended hereby to be
vested in this State, or being, or pretending to be Credi-

334 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

tors of any of the said persons hereby Attainted and
Adjudged Guilty of high Treason, shall produce and ex
hibit the same to the respective Boards, within whose
Jurisdiction such claims shall belong and be made, and
the same shall be examined and enquired into by the Re
spective boards: And if they shall find that any of the
claims so to be made as aforesaid, shall be well founded,
and have good colon'' of Justice, and are not rendered
fraudulent and void, by any part of this Act, that then
the said respective boards shall admit such claims and
Act Accorclinglv : but in case any of such claims shall not
appear to be well founded, and to have good colour of
Justice, and shall appear to be made fraudulent and
Void bv i'ns Vet. that then the said respective Boards
shaH lefer all the papers and other testimonies, upon
which 'nich claims shall be founded, to the Attorney Gen
eral for the State, for the time being, who is hereby Au
thorized and reqr.ired to enquire into, and examine the
said papers and testimonies, and to defend the right of
the State, as well before the said boards, as in any of the
Superior Courts against the same.

And l)e it Further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid
that the respective Boards so constituted and appointed as
aforesaid shall and may meet. Act and proceed from
time to time with or without Adjournment, within term
time or without, and shall and may send their precept
or precepts for any person or persons whatsoever to ap
pear before then! and for all such books papers Writings
and Authenticated Copies of Records, as they shall think
necessary for their information in any Matters or things
relating to this Act without any fee charge or reward
to be paid for the same : and shall and may detain in their
Custody, such books, papers, writings and Authenticated
copies of records, so long as they shall have occasion for
the same; and then return such books, papers, writings
And Authenticated Copies of records to such persons to

GEORGIA ACT OF ATTAINDER, 1778. 335

whom they respectively belong, and shall and may ad
minister Oaths for the better discovery of the truth of
the enquiries by them to be made to any person or per
sons therein concerned, or to any other person or persons
whatsoever ; and all Sheriffs and their deputies, and Con
stables are hereby required to obey and execute such or
ders and precepts, as shall be sent to them by the re
spective boards: and the said respective boards
are hereby empowered and required in a Sum
mary \vay. a;ul without the formalities of the pro
ceedings in the Courts of Law to enquire and inform
themselves by and upon the Testimony of Witnesses
upon Oath, examination of persons interested upon their
Oaths, inspection and examination of deeds Writings and
records or by all or any of the said ways and means,
or otherwise, according to their discretions as soon as
may be : and to make a Register in books of the names
of all such persons Attainted, and of all real and personal
Estates, and interests whatsoever by this Act Vested, or
herein" intended to be vested in this State, And by whom
such estates, was and were forfeited or forfeitable, and
what estate or Interest every such person Attainted or
to be Attainted for high Treason as aforesaid had in
any of the premises on the said nineteenth day of April
in the Year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred
and seventy five, or at any time afterwards, and by what
Tenures the same, or any of them respectively were
holden, and of all incumbrances whatsoever, to which any
of the said Estates forfeited or forfeitable for high Trea
son, were liable or subject before the said Nineteenth day
of April in the Year one thousand seven hundred and
seventy five or at any time afterwards. And in case
any person or persons summoned to appear before the
said Boards respectively for discovery of the premises
shall neglect or refuse to appear or be examined
as aforesaid then and in everv such case, it

336 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

shall and may be lawful, to and for the saul
boards respectively to Commit the said person
or persons so neglecting or refusing as aforesaid
to the Common Jail of the County wherein such sum
mons and neglect and refusal shall be made, there to re
main without bail until such person or persons shall
conform themselves and submit to be examined as afore
said; And if any Officer or Officers shall refuse to give
obedience to the precepts and Orders of the said Boards
respectively, for the clue execution of this Act, then and
in every such case it shall and may be lawful to and for
the said respective boards to impose on any such Officer
or Officers, any fine not exceeding fifty pounds lawful
money of this State for any one Offence, and to Commit
any such Officer or Officers to Jail until such fine shall
be paid. And for deterring and preventing all and every
person and persons Whatsoever anywise indebted or
liable to pay to any such forfeiting person or persons,
any sum of money hereby or otherwise vested in this
State as aforesaid, from concealing, with-holding, neg
lecting or refusing to pay the same to the said boards
respectively. —

Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that all
and every such person and persons so indebted or liable
as aforesaid who shall neglect to discover and make
known the same to the said boards respectively within
sixty days after the passing, and publication of this Act
shall forfeit double the Value of any such debt or debts,
sum or sums of money, to be recovered by suit at law in
the several Counties respectively to the Use of this State,
as aforesaid, and all and every person or persons, who
was or were, hath or have been possessed of any personal
goods or Chatties of or belonging to any such person or
persons attainted of high Treason as aforesaid when
the same became forfeited or afterwards, or shall be
thereof Possessed, are hereby strictly charged and re-

GEORGIA ACT OF ATTAINDER, 1778. 337

quired to discover and make known the same to the said
boards respectively within the said time of Sixty days,
next after the passing of this Act, and all and every such
person or persons having such goods or Chatties in his
her or their possession, Custody or power, and neglect
ing to discover the same before the expiration of the
said time of sixty days shall for such offence forfeit
double the value of such personal Goods and Chatties
to be recovered for the use of this State as aforesaid ;
And the said boards respectively are hereby Authorized
and empowered to make any such settlements and Agree
ments touching any such debts, or personal Goods and
Chatties so as aforesaid, to be discovered as the said
boards respectively shall in any such case, on due consid
eration on the nature thereof, or circumstances of the
parties Concerned therein, think fit and reasonable which
Settlements and Agreements to be valid in Law, so as
they do not extend to any Abatement of the real Amount
of any such debts, or a relinquishment of any such per
sonal goods or Chatties and so as the monies payable
on any such settlements and Agreements be paid to the
said Boards respectively for the use of this State, within
the respective times allowed by the respective boards for
the payment thereof; and where any of the said debts
are secured by bonds or Obligations with penalties, or
are due and Owing upon open Accounts not Adjusted,
the said Boards respectively are hereby Authorized to
state settle and determine the same, or to cause suits to
be commenced for the recovery thereof. —

And to the intent the debts and personal Goods and
Chatties herein before or other wise Vested in this State
may be disposed of, and the Amount and Value thereof
applied to the Use of this State;

Be it Further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid

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338 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

that the said respective boards as soon as conveniently
may be, use their utmost endeavours to secure all such
debts, goods or personal chatties, in such places, and in
the Custody of such persons, as shall be thought most
proper by the said Boards respectively, for preventing
the perishing or any loss, or embezzlement thereof, and
shall make or cause to be made a true and perfect In
ventory or Inventories thereof, Containing a true and
particular Account of all such debts, Goods and personal
chatties by whom they were forfeited, and when, and by
whom delivered to the said respective Boards, or any
person by them appointed to receive the same; and shall
also cause a just appraisement thereof to be made upon
the Oaths of any three persons to be appointed by the
said boards respectively for that purpose; And the said
boards respectively are hereby Authorized and required
to cause the sheriff or such other person as they shall
respectively appoint in the respective Counties after all
claims shall be liquidated and settled in the manner as
is herein after directed in respect to real Estates, to sell
all and singular such goods and Chatties so inventoried
and Appraised, according to their best skill and Judg
ment And for that purpose shall cause public Notice to
be given for the space of thirty days at least, of the time
and place of exposing to public sale any such goods and
Chatties, and the several particulars then and there to
be sold, at which time the sheriff or such other person as
they shall respectively appoint, shall sell the same by Auc
tion for the Money of this State only and to the Inhabi
tants being Actual Citizens and residents of, and within
the same, and to none others. And the said Boards re
spectively shall Attend the sale of any such Goods or
Chatties and shall cause an entry to be made in their
respective books, of all and every the personal Goods or
Chatties so sold, and of the buyers Names and places
of Abode, and of the prices for which they sold; And for

GEORGIA ACT OF ATTAINDER, 1778. 339

the further Assurances thereof to the buyers, the said
Boards respectively shall give a Certificate under the
hand and seal of the Chairman unto the respective Buy
ers being Inhabitants, Citizens, and residents of this State
as aforesaid and not Transient, and of and belonging to
any other State or Government except as herein after
is provided and excepted specifying the particulars by
them bought the prices and time of sale; and every such
buyer shall thereupon pay one fourth part of the Amount
of every such purchase so made by persons within the
description of this Act to the said boards respectively
for the use of this State; and shall give good and suffi
cient security by Mortgage of the property so purchased,
and Also personal Security to be Approved of by the said
boards Respectively for payment of the remaining part
of the purchase money within three Years after the day
of sale, with Interest for the same at the rate of eight
per Cent %} Annum to be paid in the following manner
that is to say, one third part of such remainder, at the
end of one Year; one other third part thereof
at the end of two years ; and the remaining
one other third part at the end of three Years,
together with the whole of the Interest at the end
of each Year respectively to the use of this State, paya
ble to the Governor of this State for the time being,
and all such Bonds shall be recorded in the Secretarys
Office of this State within Ten days after they shall be
delivered to the Governor as aforesaid ; and the said
respective boards being satisfied with the payment of the
said one fourth part which shall be deposited in the pub
lic Treasury to the use of this State and of the security
given for payment of the remainder within the time
aforesaid, shall forthwith order the particulars so bought,
paid for, and secured, to be delivered to the buyer or
buyers, his her or their Assigns; and in case any person
or persons who shall be the highest bidder for any such

340 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

personal Goods or Chatties so exposed to sale as afore
said, shall make any default in payment of the said one
fourth part of the purchase money, or in giving ap
proved security as aforesaid for payment of the remain
der within the time aforesaid, the said boards respective
ly, shall and may order the respective sheriffs, or such
other Person as they shall respectively appoint to pro
ceed to a new sale of all and every such personal goods
or Chatties for which such default shall be made unto
any other person or persons, as if no sale thereof had
before been made. Provided nevertheless, that no
one person, or any person for his or her benefit or use
shall have a right, or be permitted out of any or all the
sale or sales which shall or may be made under and
by Virtue of this Act more than twenty five Negroes
above the Age of fifteen Years ; and all purchases of a
greater Number of Negroes above that age, by any one
person, or any person for his or her use are hereby de
clared faudulent and Void, and any and all Negroes
above that age and number, which shall or may be sold
contrary to the intent and meaning of this Act, shall be
demanded and taken from any such purchaser and again
exposed to public sale : Provided also that any of
the Inhabitants and Citizens of any of the United States
who shall Actually come within this State with notorious
intent to settle in the same, may be allowed to become
purchasers at any of such sales within the restrictions
aforesaid. And provided further that no purchaser
may be allowed or permitted to remove any such slaves
so purchased as aforesaid without the limits oi this State
and that in case any person shall, Contrary to the intent
and Meaning of this Act within twelve months after the
passing and publication of the same, remove or carry
from without the limits of this State any Negro or Ne
groes so purchased as aforesaid such person or persons
shall for such offence forfeit double the Value thereof to
be recovered by suit at Law to the Use of this State.

GEORGIA ACT OF ATTAINDER, 1778. 341

And be it Further Enacted by the Authority afore
said that all and every person or persons being friends
to the Independency of this State who shall claim or pre
tend to claim any right title or interest, of, in, or to any
such real Estate of any person herein and hereby At
tainted in and by this Act, shall within Sixty days next
after the passing and publication of this Act, by his her
or their Attorney or otherwise prefer and exhibit the
same to the said Boards respectively, and in case no Claim
shall be preferred and exhibited within the said Sixty
days, of, in, or to any such real estates of such persons
attainted in and by this Act, all and every such estate or
estates shall be deemed free of Incumbrances and Charge;
and the said Boards respectively may and shall proceed
to give public notice in \Yriting, or at least forty days for
the sale of such Estates in like manner as is required
in and by this Act in respect to the sale of personal
Goods and Chatties : Provided nevertheless that in case it
shall appear to any future Legislature that any Infant,
or other person being friends to the Independency of this
state from being under Age or from any other unavoida
ble obstacle could not prefer or exhibit his, her, or their
claim or Claims O'f, in, or to any such real estates to the
said respective Boards within the said sixty days, it shall
and may be lawful to and for any such house of Assem
bly, to give and Grant to any such Aggrieved person or
persons, such relief and redress as shall be deemed equal
to the real Value of all and every such claim and claims,
any thing contained in this Act to the contrary in any
wise notwithstanding: And Provided also that all
such claimants shall have and be entitled to every
advantage of being heard by Counsel or otherwise be
fore the said respective Boards as any such Claimants
may think fit: And Provided further that all and
every such claimant or Claimants who shall or may be
discontented with the determination of any of the boards

342 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

respectively shall have the right of appealing from the
same to any of the superior Courts of this State within
the respective Counties.

And to the end that all such real Estates so sold as
aforesaid may the more effectually be secured, Assured
and confirmed to the respective buyers :

Be it Enacted by the Authority aforesaid that the
said boards respectively, shall cause the respective Sher
iffs or such other persons as shall be Appointed by the
respective boards, immediately after good and sufficient
security as aforesaid, shall be given and taken from the
respective buyers, payable within five Years next after
any and every such sale to the Governor of this State for
the time being, such security to be approved of by the said
Boards respectively, together with an Interest of six <p
Cent payable Annually to the Governor as aforesaid,
that then the said respective Sheriffs or such other per
sons as shall be appointed by the said respective Boards,
shall at the proper Costs and Charges of every such pur
chaser, sign seal and execute to every such purchaser,
Good and sufficient deeds of Lease and release, for bar
gaining, selling, Assuring, releasing, Conveying, and con
firming to every such purchaser his her or their heirs
and Assigns forever, every such tract of land or planta
tion, so to be sold and purchased under and by Virtue of
this Act, as herein before is mentioned and directed,
which said deeds of Lease and Release shall be certified
by the respective boards, by an Indorsement on the deed
of release specifying the Actual sale of the premises, the
Consideration, or purchase money, and the purchasers
name.

And be it Further Enacted by the Authority afore
said that all suits which shall or may be commenced,
or cause to be commenced, in any of the Courts within

GEORGIA ACT OF ATTAINDER, 1778. 343

this State, by any of the said respective boards under and
by Virtue of this Act, shall be in the name of the Gov
ernor in trust for, and on behalf of this State.

And be it Further Enacted by the Authority afore
said that all Bonds, Bills, Notes, Conveyances by
lease and release, or other wise, transfers Exchanges,
and settlements in trust or otherwise of any such Estates
real or personal of or belonging to persons hereby at
tainted, made or entered into before or since the said
nineteenth day of April, in the Year of our Lord one
thousand seven hundred and seventy five being fair and
for bona fide and valuable consideration and not intended
to secure and keep the same from forfeiture and confisca
tion shall be deemed and held Valid in Law any thing
herein contained to the Contrary notwithstanding: Pro
vided nevertheless that the said respective Boards shall
have and exercise the powers of Examination and En
quiry by sending for persons papers and Authenticated
copies of Records, by Administering Oaths and other
wise to discover any and all collusions and frauds, and all
deeds and writings of what nature or kind soever, which
shall appear to have been made with intent to secure any
such Estate real or personal from forfeiture and confisca
tion, is and are hereby adjudged and declared fraudulent
and Void.

AND WHEREAS the well managing of the said for
feited Estates is of the utmost consequence to the safety
and preservation of this State.

Be it Further Enacted by the Authority afore
said that the several Commissioners nominated by this
Act for the selling and disposing the said forfeited Es
tates shall each of them before they enter on the Execution
of their Office take the following Oath before any Magis
trate of the Respective Counties, not being a Member
of any of the said respective boards.

344 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

I A. B. do solemnly swear that I will to the best of
my skill and Judgment faithfully and honestly execute
and perform the several respective duties required in and
by An Act of the General Assembly of this State en
titled An Act for Attainting such persons as are therein
Mentioned &c As a Commissioner for the County of
so help me God.

And for the more effectual securing the benefits
Arising on such Estates : Be it enacted by the Au
thority aforesaid that the said Commissioners and each
of them, shall give good and sufficient security to the
Governor for the time being in trust for the use of this
State for the due and faithful performance of the trust
rq^osed in them, in proportion to the Estates so intrust
ed to them in manner and form following that is to say;
Each of the Commissioners for the County of Chatham,
five thousand pounds. Each of the Commissioners for
the County of Effingham Two Hundred pounds. Each
of the Commissioners for the County of Burke one hun
dred pounds. Each of the Commissioners for the County
of Richmond five hundred pounds. Each of the Commis
sioners for the County of Wilkes, one hundred pounds.
Each of the Commissioners for the Counties of Liberty
Glynn and Camden, five hundred pounds. Provided
nevertheless that no one Commissioner shall be security
for another Commissioner.

And Be it Further Enacted by the Authority afore
said that the respective Boards do and they are
hereby required to corespond with each other, and to set
tle different and distant days for selling any of the Es
tates real or personal, which shall or may be sold under
and by Virtue of this Act ; and in order that all and ev
ery of the Inhabitants of the several Counties may attend
any such sales.

GEORGIA ACT OF ATTAINDER, 1778. 345

And to the end that all monies arising by Means of all
and every the sale and sales rents issues and profits of any
such Estates so vested in this State as aforesaid may be
secured and applied to the uses and purposes directed by
this Act.

Be it Therefore Enacted by the Authority afore
said that the said respective boards shall and they are
hereby directed and required to pay into the public
Treasury of this State all and every sum and sums of
Money which shall or may come into their hands re
spectively by means of any sale or sales, rents issues and
profits as aforesaid within ten days after the receipt of
ail r.nd every such sum of Money by the said respective
Boards : And the Treasurers for the time being are
hereby directed and required to make and subscribe three
receipts for every such sum of Money of the same tenor
and date, and to deliver one of such receipts to the Gov
ernor for the time being : One to the said Respective

Boards, and the remaining one shall be Lodged in the
Secretary's Office of this State,

And Be it Further Enacted by the Authority afore
said that in case any of the Commissioners appointed in
and by this Act, shall die. or resign their appointment,
refuse or neglect to Act in the recess of the Legislature
then the Governor and Council for the time being, are
hereby Authorized and empowered to appoint some
proper and discreet person or persons to act in the room
or stead of any such person or persons, who shall or may
die, or resign, refuse or neglect to Act as aforesaid.

AND WHEREAS the Sheriffs of the different Counties,
or such other person or persons who shall sell any part
of the Confiscated estates will be put to considerable
trouble in selling the several Estates, Ordered to be sold

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by this Act, and it is but just and right they should re
ceive an Adequate compensation for the same.

346 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

Be it Therefore Enacted by the authority afore
said that the several Sheriffs or such other person or
persons who shall sell at public out cry the several Es
tates directed to be sold by this Act or any of them, or
any part of them, shall be allowed for their trouble there
in the following Commissions to wit, to the Sheriff or
such other person or persons who shall sell the said
Estates in the County of Chatham five shillings on every
hundred pounds Value so sold, received and paid, and to
the Sheriffs or such other person or persons who shall sell
the said Estates, in the Counties of Effingham, Burke,
Richmond, Wilkes, Liberty, Glyn and Camden fifty shil
lings on every hundred pounds value so sold received and
paid in each of the said Counties to the Amount of Ten
thousand pounds, and for all sums above the amount
of Ten thousand pounds, five shillings on every hundred
pounds Value so sold received and paid.

And to the end that all monies Arising from the said
Sales be more effectually secured, and applied to the
public Use.

Be it Therefore Enacted by the authority afore
said that the respective Boards are required to demand
a reasonable Security of the respective Sheriffs or other
persons for the due and faithful performance of their
offices, in selling the Estates both real and personal for
feited and Confiscated by this Act, and directed to be
sold, which Security shall be made payable to the Gover
nor for the time being, in trust for the State, and shall
be filed in the Secretarys office of the same there to re
main as matter of record.

And Be it Further Enacted by the Authority afore
said that the said respective Boards, be and they are
hereby Authorized and empowered to Allow and Ap
propriate any part or parts of the Estate or Estates real
or personal of every person or persons Attainted in and

GEORGIA ACT OF ATTAINDER, 1778- 347

by this Act, who hath or have left a Wife or Wives,
Child or Children behind him or them, and who are yet
and shall continue to remain within this State for the
support and Maintenance of such Wife or Wives Child
or Children. Provided that such Allowances and Ap
propriation do not exceed the one half part of any such
Estate: Except in cases where the one half part of any
such Estate shall be found to be insufficient for these
purposes ; That then and in every such Case it shall and
may be lawful for the said respective boards, to Allow
and appropriate to the purposes aforesaid any farther
part or the whole of any such Estate or Estates.

And Be it Further Enacted by the Authority Afore
said, and it is hereby enacted and declared that all
sum and sums of money arising from all and singular
the sales of both real and personal Estates so to be made
as aforesaid, shall be employed towards calling in, and
sinking the Certificates, and bills of Credit issued by
this State for the public security and defence, and to
wards defraying and discharging the Quota of this
State of the expences and disbursements of the United
States in the present War with Great Britain; And the
remainder of the same shall be appropriated as a fund
for the future support of this State, subject to the disposal
of the General Assembly of the same.

And Be it Further Enacted by the Authority Afore
said that this shall be deemed a public Act, and may
be given in evidence in any of the Courts of Record
within this State without any special pleading, and in case
any person shall be sued or impleaded for any thing done
under this Act, and Judgment by Verdict or otherwise
shall be passed against him ; such person shall recover

double costs.

By order of the House.

March Ist 1778.—

348 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

(From B. P. R. 0., Board of Trade, Georgia, Acts Vol.
4, No. 162.)

AN ACT

To disqualify and render incapable the several persons
herein after named from holding or exercising any
office of trust honour or Profit in the Province of
Georgia for a Certain time and for Other purposes
therein Mentioned.

WHEREAS a most Audacious wicked and unprovoked
Rebellion was lately raised and carried on against his
Majesty in the province of Georgia, and several persons
concerned therein, in a most violent, hostile and unlawful
manner usurped the Government thereof, and erected
themselves into a pretended independent State, where
they exercised many Acts of Violence and Oppression,
in contempt of his said Majesty and his Laws, and to the
great distress and injury of his Loyal Subjects. And
whereas the several persons herein after named were
Active and concerned in the said unlawful proceedings
or some of them. We therefore Pray your most sacred
Majesty that it may be Enacted, and be it Enacted by
his Excellency Sir James Wright Baronet Captain Gen
eral Governor and Commander in Chief, in and over his
said Majesty's Province of Georgia by and with the ad
vice and consent of the Honourable the Council and Com
mons House of Assembly of the said province in general
Assembly Met, and by the Authority of the same, that
immediately from and after the passing of this Act, and
during the Continuance thereof, the same persons herein
after named, that is to say,

John Houstoun late of this province Rebell Governor,
John Adam Treutlen, late of same, Rebell Governor

BRITISH DISQUALIFYING ACT, 1780. 349
Lachlan Mc Intosh late of the same, Rebel General,

George Walton late of the same, member of the Rebel
Congress,

William Stephens, late of the same, Rebel Attorney
General,

John Mc Luer late of the same, Rebel Major.

Joseph Clay late of the same, Rebel Paymaster Gen
eral,

Noble Wimberly Jones late of the same speaker of the
Rebel Assembly

Mordecai Sheftall late of the same Chairman of the
Rebel Parochial Committee,

William O Bryen late of the same Rebel Treasurer
John Werriatt late of the same, Rebel Councellor

Edward Telfair late of the same Member of the Rebel
Congress,

Edward Davis, late of the same Member of the Rebel
Assembly,

Samuel Elbert late of the same a Rebel General,
Seth John Cuthbert late of the same Rebel Major,

\Villiam Holzendorf late of the same, Rebel Counsel
lor,

Richard Howley late of the same Rebel Governor,

George Galphin Rebel Superintendent of Indian Af
fairs,

Andrew Williamson Rebel General,

350 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

John White late of this province Rebel Colonel
Nehemiah Wade late of the same Rebel Treasurer,
John Twiggs late of the same Rebel Colonel,
William Few late of the same Rebel Counsellor,
Edward Langworthy late of the same Rebel Delegate,
William Glasscock late of the same Rebel Counsellor,

Robert Walton late of the same Rebel Commissioner
of forfeited Estates,

Joseph Wrood Junior late of the same Clerk to the
Rebel Assembly

— (sic) pjgg-ens iate of the same Rebel Colonel,

William Hornby late of the same, distiller,
Pierce Butler late of the same Rebel Officer,

Reverend William Piercy late of the same Clerk,

Thomas Savage late of the same Planter,

Thomas Stone late of the same Rebel Counsellor,

Benjamin Andrew late of the same President of the
Rebel Council,

John Baker, Senior late of the same Rebel Colonel,
William Baker late of the same Rebel Officer.
Francis Brown late of the same Planter,

BRITISH DISQUALIFYING ACT, 1780. 351

Nathan Brunson late of the same Member of the Rebel
Congress,

John Hardy late of the same Captain of a Rebel Gal
ley

Joseph Oswald late of the same Planter
Thomas Morris late of the same Rebel Officer
Samuel Miller late of the same Rebel Assembly man
Thomas Maxwell late of the same, Planter

Joseph "\Yoodruff late of the same Captain of a Rebel
Galley

Josiah Powell late of the same Planter,
Samuel Saltus late of the same a Committeeman
John Sandiford late of the same Planter
Peter Tarling late of the same Rebel Officer,
Oliver Bowen late of the same Rebel Commodore,

Lyman Hall late of the same Member of the Rebel
Congress

Andrew Moore late of the same planter,
Joshua Inman late of the same Planter
John Dooly late of the same Rebel Colonel
John Glen late of the same Rebel Chief Justice

Richard Wylly late of the same President of the Rebel
Council,

Adam Fowler Brisbane late of the same Rebel Coun
sellor

352 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

Shem Butler late of the same, Rebel Assemblyman
Joseph Habersham late of the same, Rebel Colonel
John Stirk late of the same, Rebel Colonel
Raymond Demmere late of the same Rebel Cloathier

General Charles Odingsell late of the same Rebel Cap
tain

William Peacock late of the same Rebel Counsellor

John Braddock late of the same Captain of a Rebel
Galley

Joseph Reynolds late of the same Bricklayer

Rodolph Strohager late of the same Butcher

Charles Cope late of the same Butcher •

Lewis Cope late of the same Butcher

Hepworth Carter late of the same Rebel Captain

Stephen Johnston late of the same. Butcher,

John Mlntosh Junior late of the same Rebel Colonel,

James Houstoun late of the same Surgeon,

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James Habersham late of the same Merchant
John Habersham late of the same Rebel Major,

John Milledge Junior, late of the same Rebel Assem
blyman,

Levi Sheftal late of the same Butcher,

Philip Jacob Cohen late of the same Shop Keeper;

BRITISH DISQUALIFYING ACT, 1780. 353
John SutciifTe late of the same Shopkeeper,
Jonathan Bryan late of the Same Rebel Counsellor,
John Spencer late of the same Rebel Officer,
John Holmes late of the same Clerk,

William Gibbons the elder late of the same Rebel
Counsellor,

Sheftall Sheftall, late of the same Rebel Officer,
Philip Minis late of the same Shopkeeper, ,

Coshman Pollock late of the same Shopkeeper,
Robert Hamilton late of the same Attorney at Law
Benjamin Lloyd late of the same Rebel Officer,
James Alexander late of the same Rebel Officer,
John Jenkins late of the same Rebel Assemblyman,
Samuel Stirk late of the same Rebel Secretary,
Philip Densler late of the same, Yeoman
Henry Cuyler, late of the same Rebel Officer
Joseph Gibbons late of the same, Rebel Assemblyman,
Ebenezer Smith Platt, late of the same shopkeeper,
Matthew Griffin late of the same planter,
Peter Deveaux late of the same Gentleman
Benjamin Odingsell late of the same Rebel Officer,
John Gibbons late of the same Vendue Master,

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354 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

John Smith late of the same planter,

William LeConte late of the same Rebel Counsellor

Charles Francis Chevalier late of the same Rebel
Counsellor,

Peter Chambers of Savannah Shopkeeper,

Thomas Washington late of this Province, Rebel
Officer,

Elisha Maxwell late of the same, planter,

Thomas Maxwell Junior late of the same Rebel Major,
)

William Gibbons the younger late of the same Planter,

William Davis late of the same Rebel Officer,

John Graves late of the same Yeoman,

Charles Kent late of the same Rebel Counsellor,

John Bacon late of the same Marriner,

Job Pray late of the same Marriner.

Nathaniel Saxton late of the same tavernkeeper.

Philip Low late of the same Rebel Officer,

Samuel Spencer late of the same Marriner,

John Winn Senior late of the same Planter,

Devereaux Jarratt late of the same Rebel Assembly
man

Samuel West late of the same Gentleman,
Josiah Dupont late of the same, Planter,

BRITISH DISQUALIFYING ACT, 1780. 355
James Pugh late of the same planter,
Francis Pugh late of the same Planter
Tames Rae late of the same Planter
James Martin late of the same Planter
John Martin, late of the same Rebel Sheriff
Thomas Pace late of the same Rebel Officer,
Benjamin Few late of the same Rebel Officer,
Dionysious Wright late of the same Planter,
Chesley Bostick late of the same Shopkeeper
Littleberry Bostick late of the same planter
Leonard Marbtiry late of the same Rebel Officer,
John Sharp late of the same planter,
James Harris late of the same Planter
Henry Jones late of the same Rebel Colonel
Hugh M°Gee late of the same Rebel Captain
John Wilson late of the same Gentleman
George Wych late of the same Rebel Officer
William Candler late of the same Rebel Officer
Zechariah Fenn late of the same Planter,
William M°Intosh late of the same Rebel Colonel
David Brydie late of the Same Surgeon,
Andrew M'Lean late of the same Merchant

356 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

Sir Patrick Houstoun late of the same Barronet
Macartin Campbell late of the same Merchant
James Gordon late of the same planter,
John Kell late of the same Gentleman
John MeLean late of the same planter ;
Josiah McLean late of the same Planter
John Snider late of the same Planter,
John Elliott late of the same Rebel Officer,
Thomas Elliott, late of the same Rebel Officer
Richard Swinny late of the same Yeoman
Hugh Midclleton late of the same Rebel Officer;

and also all and every Other person and persons who at
any time or times before the Passing of this Act, hath or
have acted in the said Province of Georgia as Members
of any Council Assembly or Committee, or as a Commis
sion of trade, or of forfeited Estates or who have held
any Commission, or appointment under the said usurpa
tion, either in a Civil or Military Capacity, satisfactory
proof with respect to the persons, not particularly named
being first made thereof before the Chief Justice, or one
of the assistant Justices, or before two Justices of the
peace in the said Province, except such Persons as did
before the first day of November last past, submit them
selves to his Majesty's Government, and take the es
tablished Oaths, are, and each and every of them is
hereby disqualified, rendered and made incapable, to
exercise hold or enjoy any Office or place of honor, trust
or profit, under his Majesty in this your province of
Georgia and of serving upon Juries therein, in any Case

BRITISH DISQUALIFYING ACT, 1780. 357

Whatsoever, and of Voting at Elections, for any Repre
sentative, or Representatives, to Sit in General Assem
bly in this province and of being chosen to Represent
any parish or district of this Province, in any General
Assembly, any Law usage Statute or Custom, to the Con
trary in any wise Notwithstanding, Provided always
Nevertheless, and it shall and May be lawfull to and for
the Governor or Commander in Chief, of this province
for the time being at any time or times during the Con
tinuance of this Act, by and with the advice and Consent
of the Honourable the Council of the said province, to
Remove and take off the disqualification and incapacity
by this Act imposed in the Whole or in Part, from all
and every the Persons, herein before named, or any of
them, and those herein before designed and intended, or
any of them, so soon as they or any or either of them,
shall signalize themselves, in favour of the Peace and
Welfare of his Majestys said Government in the Prov
ince of Georgia aforesaid, or Otherwise discover, them
selves deserving such indulgence, to the satisfaction and
good liking of the said Governor or Commander in Chief
and Council for the time being as aforesaid, and to Re
store them, or any or either of them, to all the advan
tages privileges and immunities, they Respectively, en
joy 'd before they engaged in the said Rebellion And in
Order to prevent Rebellion and traitorous attempts in
time to Come, and the Other Mischeefs Arriseing from
the possession or Use of Arms, by Lawless, Wicked, and
disaffected persons, who have submitted, or may submit
themselves to his Majestys Government and inhabiting
within this province, Be it further enacted by the Au
thority aforesaid, that as well all and every the persons
before named, and those before designed and intended
as also all and every other Person and Persons, who have,
since the first day of November last past or who May
hereafter, during the Continuance of this act, separate

358 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

themselves from his Majestys Subjects, who are or may
be in Arms, or in Rebellion against him, in the province
aforesaid, or elsewhere, and submit to the Government
of our said Lord the King, and Comply with the other
Regulations directed by this Act, shall bring in and de
liver up, within ten days after being duly summoned, to
One of the Justices of the Peace, of the Parish or dis
trict, wherein such Person shall usually Reside all and
singular his and their, Arms, Swords Cutlasses pistols,
and other War like Implements, and Weapons for the
use of his Majesty his heirs and Successors, to be for
warded by every such Justice to the Governor or Com
mander in Chief for the time being or to such Officer
as he May think fit to Appoint to Receive the same, to
be disposed of in such manner, as the said Governor or
Commander in Chief, shall see fit, to and Amongst such
of his Majestys Loyal Subjects, as are inrolled, or May
be inrolled, in the Militia in the said province, and in
case any of the Persons, herein before Named, and those
designed and intended as aforesaid or any or either of
them shall Neglect or Refuse, to bring in and deliver up
their Arms, within the time Limmitted as aforesaid, or
shall afterwards have or bear any arms, or Warlike
Weapons or implements, in any part of the said Prov
ince every such person shall forfeit and Pay the Sum of
twenty five Pounds, Sterling Money of Great Britain,
for the Offence of not bringing in and delivering up their
Arms Weapons and implements as aforesaid, and the
Sum of ten pounds like Money for every time, any such
Person, shall have or bear any, Warlike Arm, implement
or weapon whatsoever And to prevent the secreting and
Keeping back of any Arms swords Cutlasses Pistols or
Other Warlike Implements or Weapons, or of powder
ball or other Ammunition, Be it further enacted that it
shall and may be lawful for any Justice of the Peace of
this Province, or of any parish or district thereof, on

BRITISH DISQUALIFYING ACT, 1780. 359

Information made on oath by any Creditable Person, or
from his own Knowledge to issue his warrant under his
hand and Seal directed to any Constable of his district,
requiring- him to search for such Concealed or retained
Arms, Weapons, implements or Ammunition, and if any
such Articles be found (the party having no license or
permission for the same as herein After mentioned) to
seize sell and dispose of, forthwith, and after deducting
the expences of the Warrant, distress and Sale to divide
the Residue, one half to the Informer or Informers, and
the Other half to the Constable or Constables, searching
after and Seizing the same, and in Case the Person or
Persons who Secreted or retained or advised, or Con
cerned himself or themselves, in secreting or Retaining,
such Arms Weapons, implements or Ammunition, can
be discovered, the said Justices is directed to bind him
her or them, in a recognizance, with two sufficient sure
ties, to Appear at the next Court of Sessions, and in
case, he, she or they, shall not give such surety then forth
with to Commit, him her or them, to the Common Goal
in Savannah, there to remain until he she or they, shall
find such Surety, or shall be Otherwise discharged by
due course of Law, and every such Person and Persons,
so offending is and are hereby Subjected and made liable
to be indicted for such Offence, as for a Misdemeanor
and if Convicted to be sentenced by the said Court of
Sessions, at their discretion, and as May be usual in
Cases of Misdemeanors provided Nevertheless, that it
shall and may be Lawful to and for the Governor or
Commander in Chief for the time being, by and with the
Advice and Consent of his Majestys Honourable Coun
cil, at any time or times during the Continuance of this
Act, to Grant licence and Permission in Writing to any
of the person or Persons aforesaid to have, retain and
Keep, in his and their any or either of their possession
such Arms Ammunition, and Other Warlike Weapons

360 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

and implements as such Governor or Commander in Chief
may think sufficient to Guard and Protect him and them,
or any or either of them, from injury insult, and for
defence against his and their, and every of their domes-
ticks, and Against the savages, Any thing herein before
Contained to the Contrary notwithstanding —
I

And Be it Further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid,

that all and every the persons herein before named, and
those designed and intended as aforesaid, and all and
every other Person and Persons, who since the first day
of November, have seperated themselves, or shall here
after seperate themselves, from his Majesty's Subjects,
who are in Arms, or in Rebellion Against him, shall
within ten days after his or their Coming or Arrival
into any part of this province, repair before some one
o.f his Majestys Justices of the Peace within the same,
and enter into a bond or Recognizance to our Soveregn
slc) Lord the King his heirs and Successors, with two
Sufficient Sureties the Principal in One hundred pounds,
and the Sureties in fifty pounds each of Sterling Money
of Great Britain, with Condition to be void if the prin
cipal shall, for twelve Months thereafter, behave and de
mean himself as a Good and Loyal Subject Keep the
Peace and be of Good beheavour towards his said Maj
esty and all his liege Subjects, and shall discountenance
to the utmost of his Power, all Rebellion, Rebellious
practices, and treasonable misdemeanors, within this
Province, and take and Subscribe, together with the state
Oaths the Oath following Viz1

I : A : B : do Swear that I will be faithful and bear
true Allegiance to his Majesty King George the third,
and I do Solemnly and sincerely declare, that I do be
lieve in my Conscience that he is Lawful and Rightful
King of the Realm of Great Britain and of the Domin
ions and Colonies thereunto belonging, that the British

BRITISH DISQUALIFYING ACT, 1780. 361

Colonies in America of Right Ought to be Subordinate
to and dependant upon the Crown of Great Britain, and
that the People called the General Continental-Congress
and all the bodies of Men and individuals exercising
jurisdiction and Authority under them, are in Rebellion
Against his Majesty their lawful Sovereign, and I do
Renounce, and Refuse Obedience to them, and every
one of them, and will not hold or carry on any Corre
spondence, by Writing, Messuage, or Otherwise, with
any Person or Persons at war with, or in re
bellion against his Majesty, without Licence and
Permission first Obtained, from One of his
Majestys Governors or Commanders by Sea. or Land,
and that I will Use my Utmost Endeavours to disclose
and made known to his Majesty and his Successors,
or to them in Authority under him or them, all treasons
and traiterous Conspiracies, which I shall Know to be
Against the King or any of his Successors and all in
vasions which I shall Know or Suspect to be intended
Against this Province, or any Other of his Majestys
Dominions and I will faithfully and to the Utmost of
my Power, enforce Maintain and defend his Majestys
Government and Authority, in and over all his domin
ions, and especially in and Over the British Provinces
and Plantations in America, and all this I do Swear
Voluntarily, heartily truly and Sincerely without any
Equivocation, evasion or Secret Reservation Whatso
ever So help My (8l° God— Which bond or Recognizance
and Oaths the said Justices Respectively are hereby di
rected to take and Administer, and to give a Certificate
thereof, and in Case any of the said Persons shall Neg
lect or Refuse to appear and enter into such bond or
Recognizance, and take and Subscribe, the said Oaths,
within the time and Manner above limitted, then every
such Person Neglecting or Refusing shall be deemed a
Suspected Person, and shall and May be immediately

862 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

Apprehended by any Justice of the Peace in this Prov
ince, and Committed to the Nearest Common Goal, there
to Remain without Bail or Mainprize, for the space of
three Months, unless such Person shall in the Mean time,
Voluntarily Comply with the terms prescribed by this
Act, Or to serve his Majesty as a Private Soldier for
and during the Continuance of the Present American
Rebellion, and in Case after the Expiration of the said
three Months imprisonment, any such Person or Per
sons, shall decline or Obstinately Refuse to Comply with
the directions of this Act, and enter into such bond or
Recognizance, and take and Subscribe the said Oaths,
then and in such Case, every such Person shall be Sub
ject and liable to be impressed and carried into his Maj
esty's Sea Service, and is and are hereby disqualified and
Rendered incapable of ever hereafter becoming a Resi
dent of or inhabitant of this province

And It is Further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid,
that the Justices of the Peace of every district and Parish
of this Province, and also the Constables therein are
hereby Required from time to time to Make diligent
Search and inquiry after all and every Person and Per
sons, Who are or May Come within their respective dis
tricts whether included in this Act or not, and all those
whom they shall suspect hath or have not Complied with
the directions of this Act to Summon before him or them
and unless such Person & Persons shall Produce a Cer
tificate that he hath or they have, Complied with this
Act, then the said Justice is hereby directed to demand
and take the Bond and Recognizance aforesaid, and that
being entered into, immediately thereafter, to tender him
and them the Oaths aforesaid, and in Case he shall de
cline Or refuse to appear and give such Bond or Recog
nizance, and take and Subscribe the said Oaths, then the
said Justice is hereby directed forthwith to Commit every
such Person to the Nearest Common Goal ; who, is here-

BRITISH DISQUALIFYING ACT, 1780. 363

by Subjected and made liable to the same imprisonment
and Other punishments, restrictions, and disabilities by
this Act imposed On those deemed Suspected Persons —

And Be it Further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid
that the fines and forfeitures imposed by this Act shall
be to his Majesty his heirs and Successors and applied in
Aid of the General tax, and shall and May be sued for
and Recovered in the General Court of this Province by
Action of debt bill Plaint or Information, —

And Be it Enacted that all summonses mentioned in
this Act shall be issued by a Judge of the Superior Court
or by a Justice of the Peace for the district in which the
delinquent resides, and in Case any Constable shall re
fuse or Neglect to receive and execute any Summons or
Warrant directed by this Act, he shall be liable to the
same Pains and penalties as for Neglecting or Refusing
any other lawful Process issued by a Justice of the
Peace —

And Be it Further Enacted by the Authority aforesaid,
that this Act shall be and Continue in force for and dur
ing the Term of three Years from the Passing thereof,
and from thence to the end of the Next Sessession (sic
of the General Assembly and no longer

Commons House of Assembly
July Ist 1780.

By Order of the House

SAMUEL FARLEY Speaker.

Assented to the first July 1780.
JAMES WRIGHT.

By Order of the Upper House

LEWIS JOHNSTON President.

364 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

(From B. P. R. O., B. of T., Georgia, Acts Vol. 4,
No. J/pJ

AN ACT

To Attaint of high Treason the Several persons herein
after Named if they do not render themselves to Jus
tice by a Certain clay and for other purposes therein
mentioned —

WHEREAS a detestable and unnatural Insurrection and
Rebellion were Levied and carried on in this province
(as well as in Several Other of the British Colonies in
North America, Many of which are still in Rebellion)
Against your Majesty's Authority and Government, and
in such Rebellion a Number of your Majesty's Subjects
and Amongst others the Several Persons herein after
Named Contrary to their duty and Allegiance, were
Wickedly and Traiterously engaged, who not only Sub
verted our happy Establishment, deprived your Majesty's
Subjects here of their Laws and Liberties, involved them
in Blood and ruin, and attainted the Persons and Con
fiscated the Property of Such of your Majesty's Loyal
Subjects as left this province, on Account of the Rebellion
or Who refused to Abjure, their Lawful and Gracious
Sovereign to Whom they had taken the Oaths of Alle
giance, and Under whose Mild and just Government,
this Province before the late Wicked Rebellion Made
a Most rapid progress to Wealth and population; but
those bad Men also, after they had Usurped the Powers
of Government, Ruled their fellow Subjects here in the
Most Arbitrary and oppressive Manner by imposing enor
mous Fines on and also imprisoning those, who Would
Not take Arms Against your Majesty and by emitting
immense Sums of Paper Money, which Must have in
evitably ruined this Country had not the Reduction of

BRITISH ACT OF ATTAINDER, 1781. 365-

it, by your Majesty's forces, put a Stop to the Currency
of Such Money : And Whereas many who were Con
cerned in the said Rebellion, have with the greatest Con
fidence and Assurance Returned here, and behaved in
such a Manner as if they took Merit to themselves from
being Rebels, In Order Therefore to Manifest, our just
abhorrence of So Wicked and unnatural a Rebellion, and
our Zeal and tender regard for the Preservation of your
Majesty's Government and the Laws and Liberties of
your Good Subjects here, and to the End that all Others
in this province May by the Justice of the Legislature be
for ever hereafter, deterred from Engaging in Rebellion
We therefore pray your Most sacred Majesty that it
May be Enacted —

And Be it Enacted by his Excellency Sir James
Wright Baronet Captain General and Governor in Chief,
in and over this his Majestys province of Georgia by and
with the Advice and Consent of the Honourable the
Upper House and the Commons house of Assembly of
the said province in General Assembly Met, and by the
Authority of the same, that such of the several persons
herein after named, who shall not Return into this prov
ince, and render themselves to the Chief Justice or One
of the Assistant Justices of this province On or before
the Ninth day of October Next ensuing the passing of
this Act, and also abide their Legal Trial for their Trea
son and Offences, then every of them not Rendering
themselves as aforesaid, or Not Abiding the Trial afore
said, shall from and after the said Ninth clay of October,
stand, and be Adjudged Attainted of high Treason to all.
intents and purposes Whatsoever, That is to say

Richard Howley late Rebel Governor in this province,
George Walton, late of the same Rebel Governor,
Lachhn M°Intosh late of this Province Rebel General,.

366 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

Noble Wimberly Jones late Speaker of a Rebel Assembly
in this Province,

Lyman Hall Continental Delegate,
William O'Bryen Rebel Treasurer,

Jonathan Bryan late Rebel Commissioner of forfeited
Estates,

Thomas Stone late Rebel Commissioner of forfeited Es
tates,

Samuel Elbert Rebel General,

John Baker Senior Rebel Colonel,

William Baker Senior Rebel Officer,

Joseph Wood Senior Rebel Assembly Man,

Oliver Bowen Rebel Commodore,

Joseph Clay Rebel Paymaster,

Nathan Brounson Continental delegate,

John Wereat, Rebel Counsellor,

John Twiggs Rebel Officer,

Richard Wylly President of a Rebel Council,

Edward Telfair Member of Congress,

Benjamin Few Rebel Officer,

Pierce Butler Rebel Officer,

Henry Lawrence late president of the Continental Con
gress, ,--TJ

BRITISH ACT OF ATTAINDER, 1781. 367
Thomas Savage Rebel Officer,
Stephen Bull Rebel General,

and also all and every other person formerly resident in
this province, that held possessed or enjoyed any office or
Commission either Civil or Military under the Rebel,
Usurped Government, of the same, excepting such only
As have Conformed to the Terms of the Act, Commonly
Called the disqualifying Act — And shall suffer and for
feit as a person attainted of high Treason by the Laws of
the Land ought to suffer and forfeit Provided Neverthe
less that such of the said persons, above particularly
named and Who may become attainted for Not Surren
dering themselves and abiding their Trial aforesaid, shall
respectively forfeit to his Majesty his heirs and Suc
cessors Subject to the Condition and proviso herein after
Contained all and every their Lands, Tenements, heredit
aments, Goods, Chattels, Rights, Credits, and Other real
and personal Estate of what Nature or Kind soever they
be in this province, whereof the several persons above
Mentioned, Who May become attainted respectively were
or any or either of them was at the time of the Treason
committed or at any time afterwards or Now are or is
Seized possessed of, interested in, or intitled unto, in
Trust for the said Several persons above particularly
named and who may become Attainted as aforesaid or
any or either of them, on which they or any or either of
them can or may forfeit by such Attainder and the said
real and personal Estates and other the premisses above
enumerated or described and hereby declared to be for
feited shall be deemed and Adjudged to be Vested, and
are hereby declared and Adjudged to be Vested, and in
the Actual and real Possession of his Majesty without
any Office or Inquisition, thereof to be taken or found
or any other proofs to be Used for that purpose Subject
Nevertheless to all Suits and Actions Whatsoever, both

368 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

at Law arid Equity, and also to all Attachments and
Other process, and also, all Other just claims and de
mands of what Nature or kind so ever of any of his
Majestys Liege Subjects, Which now are depending in
his Majestys Courts of Justice, in this province, or which
shall be commenced and prosecuted within eighteen Cal
ender Months Next after the passing of this Act, as if
the same had never been made, and the said real and
personal Estates, and Other the premisses above enu
merated or discribed, and hereby declared to be for
feited shall Nevertheless be liable to be levied on ex
tended and Sold for the payment of all Just debts and
demands Whatsoever due to any of his Majesty Liege
Subjects any thing in this Act contained to the Contrary
thereof in any wise Notwithstanding Provided Always
and it is hereby declared, that if after any Levy and Sale
made at the Suit of a Liege Subject by the Acting Pro
vost Marshal for the time being or Other proper Officer
an Overplus shall Remain After deducting the debt dam
ages and Costs or the damages and Costs (as the Case
may be) that shall be Recovered in any action or Suit of
sic) at the Instance of a Liege Subject, that is now de
pending or Which may hereafter be brought within
Eighteen Calender Months, Next after the Passing of
this Act, and such Acting Provost Marshal or other
proper Officer shall have no Other Execution against
such Lands or Other real or Personal Estate, then he
shall not pay Over such Overplus Money to the Attainted
or Banished person who formerly owned such property
or to any other on his Account, but the said Acting Pro
vost Marshal or Other proper Officer shall forthwith pay
over unto the Treasurer of this province for the Use of
his Majesty his heirs and Successors the said Overplus
Money, upon pain that such Acting Provost Marshal or
Other proper Officer, that shall Neglect or Refuse so to
do, shall in every Instance of Neglect or Refusal be pro-

BRITISH ACT OF ATTAINDER, 1781. 369

ceeded Against, as for a Contempt of his Majesty's Gen
eral Court and the receipt of the Treasurer, shall in
every such case be a Sufficient discharge and Indemnity
to the said Acting Provost Marshal or Other proper
Officer, for the Sum of Money he shall really and Bona
Fide pay to the said Treasurer on any Occasion as afore
said Provided also further that after payment and dis
charge of all Legal Claims and demands that may be
Made within the time above Limitted, on any of the be
fore named persons, who may become Attainted under
this Act, One third part of the Nett proceeds of the
Residue of every such persons Real and personal property
shall be Lodged in the Treasury of this province to the
Benefit, Use and behoof of their Wives and Children
severally and respectively to be detained in the said
Treasury, and Not delivered over, until such Wives and
Children respectively shall withdraw, themselves from
places in Rebellion and return to their Allegiance and
take the Oaths for the security of his Majestys person
and Government any thing in this Act Contained, or any
Law Statute Usage or Custom to the Contrary Notwith
standing Provided Always that all Monies paid to any
Married Woman shall be in full satisfaction of all her
Claims and demands Whatsoever on the real and per
sonal Estate from the Sale of which such Monies are
produced And such Monies shall be to her own Sole and
Seperate use, and not Subject, or Liable to the Controul
direction or Management of her Husband, or to his debts
or Contracts —

And Be it Enacted that all and every person and
persons, who Shall harbour and Conceal any or Either
of the persons Who May become Attainted as aforesaid
Such person or persons so offending and being thereof
Lawfully Convicted shall be Adjudged guilty of Felony
and shall Suffer and forfeit as in cases of Felony with
out benefit of Clergy —

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370 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

And Be it Enacted that if any of his Majestys Sub
jects of this province except such person as shall be
Licensed for that purpose by his Majesty his heirs and
unto his or their Sign, Manual, or by the Governor or
Commander in Chief of this province for the time being,
under his hand and Seal, shall hold entertain or keep any
Intelligence or Correspondence in person or by Letters,
Messages or Otherwise, with any or either of the per
sons herein before named who may be attainted as afore
said or with any person or persons Employed by them or
any or either of them, Knowing such person or persons
to be so Employed every such person so offending, being
thereof Lawfully Convicted, shall be adjudged Guilty of
Felony without Benefit of Clergy.

And Be it Enacted That all fines penalties and for
feitures imposed by this Act Not Otherwise disposed
of, shall go to his Majesty his Heirs and Successors to
be applied to the Use of this province and in Aid of the
General Tax here —

By Order of the Common House of Assembly

SAM' FARLEY Speaker
Council Chamber 9th April 1781.
Assented to

JA: WRIGHT.
By Order of the Upper House of Assembly.

LEWIS JOHNSTON.

BRITISH ACT OF ATTAINDER, 1781. 371

(From B. P. R. 0., B. of T., Georgia, Acts No. 185.)

AN ACT

To Amend an Act, intitled, "An Act to attaint of High
"Treason, the several Persons therein named, if they
"do not render themselves to Justice by a Certain Day,
"and for other Purposes therein after mentioned. —

WHEREAS An Act was assented to on the ninth Day
of April last past entitled, "An Act to attaint of High
"Treason, the several Persons therein after named, if
"they do not render themselves to Justice by a certain
"Day, and for other Purposes therein mentioned" : And
whereas in and by the same, it is enacted, "that such of
"the several Persons therein after named, who shall not
"return into this Province, and render themselves to the
"Chief Justice, or One of the Assistant Justices of this
"Province, on or before the ninth Day of October next
"ensuing the passing of the said Act, and also abide the
"legal Trial, for their Treason and Offences, then, every
"of them not rendering themselves as aforesaid, or not
"abiding the Trial aforesaid, shall from and after the
"said ninth Day of October, stand and be attainted of
"High Treason, to all Intents and Purposes whatsoever.''
And whereas it is judged expedient, that the said Act of
the General Assembly shall not take Effect, untill His
Majesty's Royal Pleasure is known therein, and also, that
the usual Savings of the Rights of Incapable Persons
should be saved and allowed —

Be it Therefore Enacted, by his Excellency Sir
James Wright, Baronet, Captain General, and Governor
in Chief, in and over this His Majesty's Province of
Georgia, by and with the Advice and Consent of the
Honourable the Upper House, and the Commons House

372 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

of Assembly met, and by the Authority of the same, that
the aforesaid Act, nor any Part or Clause thereof shall
be of any Force or Effect, but the same is wholly sus
pended, untill His Most Sacred Majesty's Royal Appro
bation and Allowance thereof, shall be signified to the
Governor or Commander in Chief, of this Province, for
the Time being; And that the several Persons therein
named and described, and each and every of them, shall
have three Months to surrender themselves and abide
their Trial, from the Time of receiving His Majesty's
Royal Approbation and Allowance of the same; And
publishing such Allowance thereof in the Gazette of this
Province, any Thing in the said herein before recited
Act to the Contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding

And Be it Further Enacted, that if any of the Per
sons in the aforesaid Act mentioned and described shall
be Non Compos Mentis, or imprisoned, that such Per
son or Persons shall have six Months Time allowed
them to surrender him or themselves, and take their
Trial as aforesaid, from the Time of his, or their com
ing, — or being of sound Mind, and Enlargement out of
Prison, any thing in the aforesaid recited Act, to the
Contrary thereof, in any wise notwithstanding

By Order of the Commons House of Assembly.

SAM! FARLEY, Speaker
Council Chamber, i9tb May 1781.

Assented to

JA. WRIGHT.
By Order of the Upper House of Assembly.

JOHN GRAHAM PresidL

CONFISCATION.— BANISHMENT, 1782. 373

(From State Archives.)

AN ACT

For inflicting Penalties on, and confiscating the estates
of such persons as are therein declared guilty of
treason, and for other purposes therein mentioned. —

WHEREAS on the first day of March which was in the
Year of our Lord, one thousand seven hundred and
seventy eight, An Act passed for Attainting certain per
sons therein mentioned of Treason, and Confiscating their
estates, for the use and benefit of this State; which Act
has not as yet been carried into full execution. And where
as it is Necessary that the names of the said persons so
attainted by the said law should be inserted in a law with
the names of Various other persons who have since the
Aforesaid time been Guilty of Treason Against this
State, and the Authority of the same; by traiterously
Adhering to the King of Great Britain, and by Aiding,
Assisting, Abetting and comforting the Generals and
other officers Civil and Military of the said King to en
force his Authority, in and over this State and the Good
people of the same. And Whereas the said Trea
sons have been followed with a series of Murders, rapine,
and devastation, as cruel as they were unnecessary,
whereby Order and Justice were banished the land, and
lawless power established on high exhibited the melan
choly picture of Indians inflicting dreadfull punishment
on both old and Young of the faithful and peaceable
Citizens of the State — Women and Children sitting on
the ruins of their houses perishing by famine and cold,
whilst others were compelled in the midst of a rigorous
Season to depart this State being previously plundered of
both their, and their Childrens Cloathing, and every
other Necessary that might tend to mitigate the uncom-

374 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

mon severities exercised on the softer sex and their in
nocent babes, nor was this all. Whilst these days of
blood and British Anarchy continued among us, and
commanded executions of our Citizens taken in Arms in
defence of their invaluable rights to take place. — Exe
cutions as unauthorised by the laws of Nations as they
were cruel in themselves, and only to be exceeded if pos
sible by the Abandoned profligacy of setting torches to
temples dedicated to the service of the most high God.
Whereby they compleated a violation of every right
human and divine; And \Vhereas the aforesaid treasons
and other atrocious crimes justly merit a forfeiture of
protection and property.

Be it Enacted by the Representatives of the freemen
of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and
by the Authority of the same that all and each of the
following persons. Viz.

FOR CHATHAM,
Sir James Wright Baronet,
John Graham,
Alexander Wright,
Lachlan M'Gillivray,
John Mulryne,
Josiah Tattnall,
Basil Cowper,
William Telfair,
Alexander M'Goun,
Thomas Talmash,

CONFISCATION.— BANISHMENT, 1782. 375

Samuel Douglass,
Lewis Johnston Senr,
Lewis Johnston Junr,
William Johnston,
Thomas Johnston,
James Johnston,
Samuel Farley,
James Alexander,
Joseph Spencer,
James Butler,

John Wood,

Robert Reid,

John Storr,

Thomas Reid,

George Houston,

Phillip Delegall Senr his heirs devisee or Assigns,

Phillip Delegall Junr,

David Delegall,

John Glen,

John Bond Randolph,

James Mossman,

John Charles Lucena,

376 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

Nathaniel Hall,

Thomas Gibbons,

John Fox Jim.,

John Simpson (Sabine fields)

Mathew Stewart,

John Sutcliffe,

Benjamin Farley,

Thomas Ross,

John Joachin Zubly his heirs devisees or Assigns

David Zubly Junr,

George Bailey,

William Wylly,

Campbell Wylly,

Thomas Wylly,

Levi Sheftall,

James Harriott,

James Graham,

James Hume,

John Hume his heirs devisees or Assigns,

Thomas Goldsmith, his heirs devisees or Assigns,

Major James Wright,

James Robertson,

CONFISCATION.— BANISHMENT, 1782. 377
Henry Young Junr,

Joseph Farley his heirs devisees or Assigns,
John Foulis,
Thomas Fleming,
Alexander Thompson,

Robert M°Cormick his heirs devisees or Assigns,
Thomas Forbes,
Col Thomas Brown,
James Thompson,
William Jones of Savannah,
Martin Jolly,
Donald Frazer,
Isaac Baillou,
Doctor John Irvine,
George Kincaid,
William Knox,
John Murray,
George Cuthbert,
William M'Gillivray,
William Stephens,
Benjamin Willson,
Peter Deane,

378 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

George Fox,

Moses Kirkland,

John Lightinstone,

William Liford,

Andrew Hewitt,

Alexander Inglis,

James Brisbane,

William Miller,

William Moss,

Phillip Moore,

William Panton,
. Thomas Skinner,
• John Mulryne Tattnall,

Charles William M'Kinney his heirs devisees or As
signs,

Alexander Rose,

Charles Wright Senr,

Robert Porteus,

Jermyn Wright his heirs devisees or Assigns,

Charles Wright son of Sir James,

John M'Gillivray,

Tim Barnard,

CONFISCATION.— BANISHMENT, 1782. 379

Isaac Delion,
Peter Edwards,
Samuel Langley,
Samuel Ealy.

LIBERTY GLYN AND CAMDEN

Roger Kellsal,

Thomas Young,

Simon Munro,

Henry Munro,

James Spalding,

Robert Bailey,

Alexander Creighton,

Roderick Mclntosh,

William M°Intosh, Indian Trader,

Charles McDaniel, his heirs devisees or Assigns,

John McDonald,

Donald M°Donald,

Daniel M'Cloud,

Daniel B. Mclntosh,

John Pollson his heirs devisees or Assigns,

William Ross S1 Andrews,

John Wesley,

380 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

- McCoy of S1 Andrews,
John Shave Junr,
Richard Shave,

Arthur Carney Senr his heirs devisees or Assigns,
Arthur Carney Junr,
William Dawson, of Newport ferry,
Charles Watts Ship Carpenter of Colonels Island,

— Shepherd of Colonels Island,
James Carson of South Carolina,
William Clark,

*Sir Patrick Houstoun Baronet,
John Martin Jakill, his heirs devisees or Assigns,
James Kitchen,
John William Williams,
Reymond Demere Junr,
John Proctor,
Daniel McGirt,
Jr.mes M'Girt,
George Arons.

*It will be observed that Sir Patrick Houstoun, a member of the King's Coun
cil in Georgia, was proscribed by both sides. It is not difficult to realize the
embarrassing and delicate situation in which the sturdy old loyalist found him
self He was one of the King's counsellors in Georgia, while his son, John, was
one, and a prominent one, of the leaders of the rebellion. Sir Patrick was no
doubt truly loyal to his King, but at the same time, as the father of a brilliant
son who was winning laurels on the other side, he could but feel a pride in him,
and, to a certain extent, sympathize with his cause. Duty made him loyal to the
King : natural affection drew him to his son and his son's cause. Recognizing
these facts, each side suspected him, and both sides proscribed him.

CONFISCATION.— BANISHMENT, 1782. 381

EFFINGHAM COUNTY
William Willis,
Abraham Mincey,
Henry Cooper Senr,
Henry Cooper Junr,
William Cooper,
Benjamin Lanier,
John Boyakin,
Joshua Pierce Junr,
William Pierce,
Stephen Pierce,
Phillip Dill Senr,
Philip Dill Junr

James Dill his heirs devisees or Assigns
John Goldwire,
James Pace Senr,
Christopher Frederick Trubnier,
Stephen Dampier,

Peter Blythe his heirs devisees or Assigns —
John Blythe,
Samuel Cooper,
George Weekley,

382 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

Wilderick Gruber,
Joseph Johnson,
John Johnson,
William Powell,
William Love,
John Love. Burke County.
John Thomas,
David Russell,
Mathew Lyle,
Robert Miller,
John Roberson,
Daniel Howell,
Alexander Carter,
Robert Wolsington,
Willoughby Tucker,

John M'Cormick his heirs devisees or Assigns,
Paul M'Cormick his heirs devisees or Assigns,
Robert Henderson his heirs devisees or Assigns,
Lud Mobley,
James Herbert,

James Moore his heirs devisees or Asigns,
Samuel Moore,

CONFISCATION.— BANISHMENT, 1782. 383
Joseph Cornals,
Robert French,
William Balfour his heirs devisees or Assigns,

^

Isaac Downing,

Isaac Eaton,

Andrew M'Nely,

James Robertson,

James Lyle,

Joseph Marshal,

John Pigg his heirs devisees or Assigns,

John Brown,

Thomas Rutherford,

Cader Price,

John Hammitt,

David Green,

Philip Helveston,

William Hammonds,

George Johnson Senr

John Johnson,

William Corker,

Edward Corker,

John Corker,

384 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

Stephen Corker,
William Mangrum,
James Douglass,
William Durgan,
James Hunt,
John Young,
Robert Tillman,
William Young,

Mathew Moore his heirs devisees or Assigns,
Henry Sharp his heirs devisees or assigns,
Jacob Sharp,
Cordy Sharp,
William M°Natt,
Samuel Montgomery,
Thomas Lamb,
Edward Pilcher,
Benjamin Brantley,
Henry Overstreet,
Elias Bonnell,
William Brown,
Augustus Undenvood,
Absalam Wells,

CONFISCATION,— BANISHMENT, 1782. 385
John Ferguson,
William Reid,
Thomas Beatty.

!

WILKES COUNTY.

.1
Thomas Waters,

Henry Williams,

John Douglass,

WTilliam White,

Samuel Williams,

John O Neal,

Avington Perkins,

Daniel Phillips,

James Gordan,

Abraham Wilkins,

Samuel Wilkins,

Jonathan Wilkins,

Luke Bynan,

William Tidwell,

Reuben Sherrell his heirs devisees or Assigns,

James Gordon

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386 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

RICHMOND COUNTY.

Col James Grierson his heirs devisees or Assigns,
Andrew Moore his heirs devisees or Assigns,
John Howard, his heirs devisees or Assigns,
William Manson,
James Ingram,
Edward Ashton,
James Seymore,
Martin Weatherford,
James Weatherford,
John Henderson,
John Weatherford,
George Phillips,
Alexander M°Lean,

Benjamin Howard, his heirs devisees or Assigns,
Thomas Howard, his heirs devisees or assigns,

o "

Andrew Roberson,
Daniel Cameron,
John Jamison,
William Oats,
Thomas Scott,
Richard Bailey,

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John Corpinger,
Thomas Manson,
Jacob Watson,
Doctor Andrew Johnson,
Charles Weather ford,
John Furlow,

James Jackson of Augusta Merchant,
William Johnson,
Doctor Francis Folliott,
Doctor Thomas Taylor,
Simon Patterson,
Thomas Polhill.

Nathaniel Polhill his heirs devisees or Assigns,
John Maxwell,
Solomon Kemp.

Be, and they are hereby declared to be banished from
this State forever; and if any of the aforesaid persons
shall remain in this State sixty days after the passing of
this Act, or shall return to this State, the Governor
or Commander in Chief for the time being is hereby
Authorized and required to cause all the persons so re
maining or returning to this State to be apprehended
and committed to Goal, there to remain without bail or
Mainprize until a Convenient Opportunity shall offer for
transporting the said person or persons beyond the Seas
to some part of the British Kings dominions, which the

388 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

Governor or Commander in Chief for the time being
is hereby required to do, and if any of the said persons
shall return to this State after such transportation then
and in such Case he or they shall be adjudged and they
are hereby declared to be guilty of felony and shall on
Conviction of their having so returned as aforesaid suffer
death without benefit of Clergy. -

And Be it Further Enacted by the Authority afore
said that all and Singular the Estate real and
personal of each and every of the aforesaid per
sons, which they held possessed, or were en
titled to in Law or Equity On the nineteenth
day of April one thousand seven hundred and seventy
five, or which they have held since, or do hold in posses
sion, or others hold in trust for them, or to which they
are or may be entitled to in law or equity, or which they
may have held, or be possessed of in right of others, to
gether with all debts, dues and demands of whatever
Nature, that are or may be owing to the aforesaid per
sons, or either or them, be confiscated to and for the use
and benefit of this State, and the monies Arising from
the sales which shall take place by virtue of and in pur
suance of this Act to be Applied to such Uses and pur
poses as the Legislature shall hereafter direct.

AND WHEREAS divers other persons Citizens of this
State, and owing Allegiance thereto (whose names are
not herein recited) did in Violation of the said Allegiance
traiterously Assist abet and Participate in the aforesaid
treasonable Practices. —

Be it Therefore Enacted by the Authority afore
said that all and every the person or Persons under this
description shall on full proof and Conviction of the
same in a Court of Law, be liable and subjected to, and
they are hereby declared liable and subjected to all the

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like pains penalties and forfeitures inflicted by this Act,
on those Offenders, whose names are particularly Men
tioned therein. —

AND WHEREAS there are divers Estates and other
property within this State belonging to persons who have
been declared Guilty, or Convicted in one or other of
the United States of Offences, which have induced a
confiscation of their Estates, or Property within the
State of which they were Citizens. —

Be it Therefore Enacted by the Authority afore
said that all and singular the Estates both real and per
sonal of persons under this description of whatsoever
kind or Nature together with all rights or titles which
they may, do or shall hold in law or equity, or otherwise
in trust for them. And Also, all the debts dues and
demands (except debts and demands due or owing to
British Merchants or others residing in Great Britain,
which shall be Appropriated as herein after mentioned)
Owing or Accruing to them, be Confiscated to and for
the use and benefit of this State, in like Manner and form
of forfeiture as they were subjected to in the States of
which they respectively were Citizens of, — and the
monies arising from the sales which shall take place by
virtue of and in pursuance of this Act to be applied to
such uses and purposes as the Legislature shall hereafter
direct. —

And Be it Further Enacted that all debts dues or
demands due or Owing to Merchants or others residing
in Great Britain be and they are hereby Sequestered, and
the Commissioners Appointed by this Act, or a Majority of
them are hereby empowered to recover, receive, and de
posit the same in the Treasury of this State in the same
manner and under the same regulations as debts Confis
cated there to remain for the Use of this State, untill
otherwise Appropriated by this or any future house of
Assembly.

390 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

AND WHEREAS there are various Persons Subjects of
the King of Great Britain Possessed of, or entitled to es
tates Real and Personal which Justice and sound policy
require should be applied to the benefit of this State.

Be it Therefore Enacted by the Authority afore
said, that all and Singular the Estates Real and 'Personal
belonging to Persons being british subjects of whatever
kind or Nature they may be Possessed of (except as be
fore excepted) or others in trust for them, or that they
Are or may be intitled to in law or equity, and also all
debts dues or demands owing or Accruing to them be Con
fiscated to and for the use and benefit of this State, and
the Monies arising from the sales which shall take place
by Virtue of and in Pursuance of this Act, to be Applied
to such uses and purposes as the Legislature shall here
after direct. —

AND WHEREAS Several fraudulent Sales, Grants, de
vises, transfers, bargains, exchanges, or other titles and
conveyances may have been made by some or other of the
aforesaid persons heretofore with intent to defraud the
State, and to commit treason against the same with im
punity. -

Be it Therefore Enacted by the Authority Afore
said, that every Sale, Grant, devise, transfer, bargain, ex
change, or other title or Conveyance, which has been
made or executed by any of the aforesaid persons Or by
his or their Attorney or Attorneys, Agent or Agents
since and after the Nineteenth day of April which was
in the Year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred
and seventy five, shall be deemed and held null and Void
to all intents and purposes whatsoever. —

AND WHEREAS there are several Just claims and de
mands which may be made by the good and faithful Cit-

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izens of this State, or others of the United States, Against
the Estates of persons Confiscated by this Act. —

Be it Therefore Enacted by the Authority afore
said that any person or persons well affected to the In
dependency of the United States having debts owing
to them, from the persons named or described in this Act,
or who have any other Just claim or claims in law or
equity against Any of the said Confiscated Estates, that
every such person or persons, shall bring his or their
Claim, or enter his or their Action within the space of
twelve Months from the passing of this Act, or in default
thereof he or they shall be forever debarred of deriving
any benefit from the same.

And Be it Further Enacted that all persons having
claims or demands against any of the Confiscated Es
tates be at his or their option to lay a state and proofs
of the said demands before the said Commissioners or a
Majority of them, on or before the fourth day of May
next, and the said Commissioners or a Majority of them
are hereby empowered and required to examine into the
Justice and Validity of the said demands, and make a
Report thereof to the General Assembly at their next
meeting, after the said fourth day of May next, to the
end that the Legislature may direct with respect to such
Creditors what to justice shall appertain. And if the
said Legislature shall not liquidate the said demands,
Agreeable to the Claimant, such claimant shall have an
Action Against the said Commissioners or a Majority
of them, and the Amount of Sales of the Estates of the
persons Mentioned in this Act shall be respectively liable
to satisfy the said demands and all other Creditors ex
cept those who are unfriendly to American Independence,
and where any Claimant shall so chuse, he or they shall
have recourse to his or their Action at law. And if
a Verdict of the Court where the same shall be tried

392 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

shall pass for him or them, then on certifying the same
to his Honor the Governor or Commander in Chief for
the time being, his honor the Governor or Commander
in Chief for the time being, shall issue a certificate for
the sum verified by the Verdict to every such Claimant,
which Certificate shall be made payable, and to be paid
in twelve months after date thereof with Interest for the
same, at the rate of seven pounds Per Cent Yearly, and
shall be admitted and received in payment in every pur
chase which such person or persons may make at the
sales of the forfeited Estates at the expiration of the said
twelve Months: Provided Always that the Judges of
the Superior Courts in the respective Counties be em
powered and Authorized to proceed in a summary
Manner to determine in cases where the Cause of Action
shall not exceed fifteen pounds: And to the end thai
this Act may be carried into effectual execution for the
benefit of this State.

P>e it Further Enacted by the Authority Aforesaid,
That there be a board of Commissioners Appointed by
ballot of this house, to Consist of two persons out of
each of the Counties within this State, except Glyn and
Camden, for which there shall be one chosen which said
Commissioners or a Majority of the said thirteen Com
missioners so Chosen, shall be and they are hereby
empowered, Authorized and required to take into their
custody and care all and every the Estates real and per
sonal which are confiscated by this Act ; and they arc
hereby empowered and Authorized to do all Acts And
things, which are Necessary for carrying the same into
execution. —

And Be it Further Enacted by the Authority Afore
said that the said Commissioners or a Majority
of them be empowered and required and they are hereby
empowered and required to proceed to, and begin the

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sales of the said forfeited Estates both real and personal
in forty days from and after the passing of this Act on
the following terms and Conditions to wit, Seven Years
Credit to be given to purchasers of the landed or other
Real Estates ; and four Years credit to be given to pur
chasers of the personal Estates ; That the said sales be
public, and held on or between the hours of Ten O Clock
in the forenoon and three in the afternoon, with Power
of Adjournment from day to day or otherwise, in such
place or places as the said Commissioners or a Majority
of them shall Judge most Convenient, That the said Com
missioners or a Majority of them do and shall issue thirty
days Notice previous to the Commencement of the said
sales, and that the highest bidder, be deemed and con
sidered a purchaser. That the said Commissioners or a
Majority of them, shall take a personal obligation from
every purchaser of any part or parts of the real or landed
Estate?, with a Mortgage of the same; for the payment
of the purchase money at the time appointed by this Act,
together with sufficient security for the payment of Inter
est Annually at the rate of seven pounds Per Cent Per
Annum, which payment of principal and Interest shall
be rendered in Mexican dollars or other Monies in Gold
or Silver. That the said Commissioners or a Majority
of them shall take the bonds in the name of his honor
the Governor or Commander in Chief of the State for the
time being and his successor in office ; and that the said
Commissioners or a Majority of them be fully empow
ered And Authorized, and they are hereby empowered
Authorized and Required to execute sufficient titles and
Conveyances for vesting the Estates Real and personal
in the persons who shall respectively purchase the same,
their heirs Executors, Administrators or Assigns re
spectively for the terms for which they were sold. That
the said Commissioners respectively, shall previous to
their entering into the execution of their Office, give Se
curity to the Amount of three thousand pounds specie

394 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

to his honor the Governor or Commander in Chief of the
State for the time being And take the following Oath of
Office. I. A. B. do solemnly Swear that I will deligently,
truly, and impartially execute the duty of a Commissioner
for the sale of the forfeited estates, Agreeable to the
directions of the Act, for the benefit of this State. So
help me God

AND WHEREAS notwithstanding the Scenes of Cruelty
and distress which the Wives and Children of Numbers
of the good and faithful Citizens of this State under
went humanity dictates that a reasonable support and
Maintenance should be allowed to the Families that may
have remained among us belonging to persons whose es
tates are Confiscated by this Act. —

Be it Therefore Enacted by the Authority afore
said that the said Commissioners or a Majority of them
be hereby empowered and authorized, and they are hereby
authorized and required to grant a reasonable and tem
porary maintenance to the families of such persons as
are banished by this Act untill the Legislature shall here
after direct or order a fixed Support for the said fam
ilies. —

AND WHEREAS it is necessary for the public benefit
that all embezzlements, removals, or concealments of
the forfeited Estates should be prevented.

Be it Therefore Enacted by the Authority afore
said that any person or persons who shall from and after
the passing of this Act, wilfully or intentionally Conceal
or embezzle any part or parts of the personal property
Confiscated by this Act, from the Commissioners ap
pointed by this Act for taking the same into their Cus
tody or Care or who shall Convert the same to their own
use and behoof with intent to defraud the State, and pre-

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vent the Commissioners from selling or otherwise dispos
ing of the same, that all and every person or persons so
offending as aforesaid shall be guilty of felony and ort
Conviction thereof shall suffer death. -

AND WHEREAS doubts may arise whether the Inhabi
tants of this State who Possess no Grants for the lands
formerly purchased of the British Commissioners in
Wilkes County, commonly called and known by the name
of the ceded lands are enabled to give landed security
where the same is required by this Act. -

Be it Therefore Enacted by the Authority afore
said that the said inhabitants are and they are hereby
declared capable of offering and giving such ungranted
lands as security to the Commissioners for the sales of
the forfeited Estates in every of these cases where se
curity is required by this Act.

AND WHEREAS from the irruption of the Enemy and
the devastation which followed, various of the good peo
ple of the State may have lost their Grants or titles to
their lands.

Be it Therefore Enacted by the Authority afore
said that all and every person under this description and
who are publickly known to be possessed of the lands the
titles or grants of which are so lost or destroyed, shall
be capable of Giving such lands in Security, And such
security shall be received in all and every of those cases
where landed Security is required by this Act.

AND WHEREAS several sales of Real Estates, forfeited
and Confiscated by the Act of Attainder and Confisca
tion which was passed on or about the first day of March,
one thousand seven hundred and seventy eight, took
place, the terms of which sales were not complied with.

396 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

Be it Therefore Enacted by the Authority afore
said, that all and every sale of any part or parts of the
said real Estates, the terms of which were not strictly
complied with, and fulfilled on the part of the purchaser
or purchasers, in the manner and form prescribed and
required in the Rules and Regulations for selling the
said real Estates, be deemed and held null and Void, and
such sale or sales are hereby declared to be null and
Void to all intents and purposes whatsoever. And the
Commissioners Appointed by this Act, are empowered
and required to take the said Real Estates into their
Custody and care, and to be subjected to sale under the
Power and Authority of this Act. -

And Be it Further Enacted by the Authority afore
said that the said Commissioners or a Majority of them
be empowered and required, and they are hereby empow
ered and required to proceed to the sales of the forfeited
real Estates, which have been settled heretofore, or
which by public notoriety, are known or Generally under
stood to contain a Certain or supposed Number of Acres,
under the description, which the said Lott, Plantation,
or tract of Land, Island or Islands as the case may be,
Generally bears : And also to the sales of all such other
unsettled Real Estates as the said Commissioners or a
Majority of them can receive a well informed knowledge
of from wise and faithful Citizens who are or may be
Acquainted with such unsettled tracts of land.

And Be it Further Enacted by the Authority afore
said, that the State will and do Guarantee and defend the
Commissioners appointed by this Act or a Majority of
them in all their proceedings for Carrying the Powers
and Authority given them by the same into full effect;
and will also warrant and forever defend all and every
sale or sales which the said Commissioners or a Majority
of them shall make to any purchaser or purchasers of

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any part or parts of the Real and personal Estates Con
fiscated by this Act.

And Be it Further Enacted by the Authority afore
said that the said Commissioners be allowed a Commis
sion of one and a half Per Cent on all sales of the real
and personal Estates; besides all Reasonable and Just
expences incurred in carrying this Act in Execution.

And Be it Further Enacted by the Authority afore
said that the Commissioners shall and they are
hereby required from time to time, once in two months
make Out returns of all their proceedings, and deliver
the same to his Honor the Governor or Commander in
Chief for the time being, with the Inventories of the
different Estates; and all such Account of Sales as may
be finished, and also all bonds and Securities and sums
of Money Received by them.

And Be it Further Enacted by the Authority afore
said that this Act shall be a public one, And Judi
cially taken notice of as such ; and that the same, shall
have the most full, liberal and General Construction for
the purpose of carrying the same into execution, in the
most beneficial Manner; and if the said Commissioners
or any of them be impleaded or sued, or any person
Acting under their Authority for any matter or thing
done by Virtue of this Act, they, or he may plead the
General issue, and give this Act and the special Matter
in evidence and on Verdict or Judgment against the
Plaintiff, or on his non suit, or discontinuance, the per
son or persons so sued shall recover treble Costs.

Signed by Order of the House

State of Georgia 1 SAMUEL SALTUS

Augusta
May 4th 1782. J Speaker of the General Assembly

398 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

On the 29th of December, 1778, seven clays before the
expiration of the term for which Governor Houstoun had
been elected, the British captured Savannah and the state
government was dispersed, and for many months a con
dition of anarchy prevailed in Georgia, no department
of the government being in the discharge of its constitu
tional functions. None of our historians have ever made
it clear how this condition was brought about. McCall,
our first historian, falls into palpable error. He says,
Barter the metropolis of the state had fallen into the
hands of the enemy, the legislature had dispersed without
•appointing a Governor for the succeeding year," thus
conveying the idea that the legislature was in session
when the attack was made, whereas it was not in session,
and had not been for a month at least. The constitution
provided that "it shall be an unalterable rule that the
House of Assembly shall expire and be at an end yearly,
and every year, on the day preceding the day of election
mentioned" (in the constitution). The day mentioned,
in the constitution on which members of the legislature
must be elected "yearly and every year" was the first
Tuesday in December. The term of the legislature of
1778, Governor Houstoun's legislature, therefore expired
and was at an end "on the day before" the first Tuesday
in December, 1778. It therefore could not have been in
session when Savannah was attacked, for its term of serv
ice had expired. Its successor, the legislature for 1779,
had been elected, but the constitution provided that "the
representatives shall meet on the first Tuesday in January
following" their election. Hence this legislature, the leg
islature chosen in December, 1778, could not meet in
regular session and organize until the first Tuesday in
January, 1779. It is true that the constitution provided
that "the Governor, with the advice of the Executive
Council shall have power to call the House of Assembly
together in any emergency," and if an emergency had

WITHOUT ORGANIZED GOVERNMENT. 399

arisen he would have called the members elected for
1/79, not the old legislature of 1778, for its term had
expired. But there is no evidence that either was called,
and it is therefore almost a certainty that no legislature
was in session at the time Savannah was attacked and
captured.

Bishop Stevens, in "his excellent history of Georgia, did
not attempt to account for the anomalous condition, but
says there existed "a confusion in civil affairs which the
historian with his present imperfect materials cannot
fully unravel"; while Colonel Jones does not attempt to
elucidate the subject, but passes it over without com
ment.

The real causes of this period of anarchy were these :
under the Constitution of 1777, the Governor was elected
by the legislature for a period of one year, and in his
oath of office he was required to swear that ''i
will peaceably and quietly resign the government
to which I have been elected at the period to
which my continuance in said office is limited
by the constitution." The President of the Execu
tive Council, upon whom alone the executive duties de
volved in case of a vacancy in the office of Governor, was
also elected at the same time for one year and took the
same oath as the Governor; consequently each of these
officers went out of office at the expiration of one year
from the date of his election, there being no provision in
the constitution for their holding over till their successors
were elected, this provision never having been incorpo
rated in the organic law until 1798. Thus the office of
Governor became vacant, and there was no legislature in
session to fill the vacancy. An election for members of
a legislature to convene in Savannah on the first Tuesday
in January. 1779, had been held on the first Tuesday in

400 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

December, 17/8; but seven days before it \voulcl have
met and elected Governor Houstoun's successor the city
was captured by the enemy, and it was therefore impossi
ble for it to meet there- When Savannah was menaced
by the British in December, 1778, the House of Assem
bly, in which alone the power to remove the seat of gov
ernment was lodged, not being in session, Governor Hous-
toun's Executive Council, a few days before the expira
tion of their term, assumed the responsibility of ordering
the temporary removal to Augusta, but the British com
mander pushed a column of soldiers to that place and oc
cupied it before the government could be established there.

Repeated efforts were made to convene the legislature,
elected the preceding December, to elect a Governor and
reorganize the state government, but it was impossible to
secure the attendance of a quorum, the members elected
being scattered, some refugees in other states, some within
the enemy's lines and some, but not enough to mr.ke a
quorum, in that part of the state still held by the patriots.

Thus, when Savannah fell, Georgia was left without a
Governor, without a legislature, without an Executive
Council, and without even a temporary seat of govern
ment. The last meeting of Governor Houstoun and his
Council, as appears from their book of minutes still pre
served and printed in Volume II of our compilation of
Revolutionary Records, was held in Savannah on the 26th
of December, 1778. Immediately following this minute,
on the same page, is the following entry in the hand
writing of their Secretary : —

"The town of Savannah being taken by the British on
the 28th of December put a final end to public business of
a civil nature." This was the end of Governor Hous
toun' s administration and of organized government in
Georgia for a long period of time, but not of the efforts

WITHOUT ORGANIZED GOVERNMENT. 401

of the patriotic men who had been elected to the legisla
ture for the year 1 779, but who had not organized before
the fall of Savannah, and could not have organized, under
the terms of the constitution, had the town not been taken,
before the first Tuesday in January, 1779, the day fixed
in the constitution for the regular annual meetings of
the legislature and the election of a governor. Immedi
ately after the fall of Savannah, Augusta having been
designated by the Executive Council as the temporary seat
of government, some of the members elect attempted
to convene the legislature there for the purpose of elect
ing a Governor and reorganizing their state government,
and to this end repaired at once to that place, arriving
there in advance of the British troops sent by Colonel
Campbell, British commander at" Savannah, to occupy
the town.

Immediately following the last entry in the book of the
Minutes of Governor Houstoun's Council, quoted above,
is this entry : —

"The members chosen on the 7th of this instant by
the Honorable House of Assembly for a Council of this
State, met at the house of Matthew Hobson, in Augusta,
and proceeded to the choice of a President and adjourned
till the meeting of the next convention."

It will be observed that the name of the President
elected is not given, and we are left to conjecture as to
who was chosen. The next entry in the book is as fol
lows : —

"GEORGIA. January 9th, 1779.

Agreeable to resolve of the Convention of the Repre
sentatives of the State of Georgia in Assembly met, which
resolve is as follows, viz —

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402 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

RESOLVED, that the members chosen for a Council, cr
a majority thereof, act as a committee, empowered by this
convention to recommend every thing they may deem
expedient in the place of a Council for this State, until
the convention meet again to clothe them with power to
act as an Executive Council."

These entries clearly show that everything that was
done by the patriots, struggling to maintain the semblance
of a state government, was irregular. "The Honorable
House of Assembly" which on the 7th of January nomi
nated an Executive Council, was not a legal legislature,
but a mere irregular assemblage of a minority of the
members elected in the preceding December. Had the as
semblage constituted a majority of the members elect,
they would have at once organized in due form by elect
ing a Speaker and have chosen a Governor to succeed
Governor Houstoim. But they did not do this. They
were not in fact a legislature, but only a minority of the
members elected to the legislature. Realizing this they
did not assume to be a legislature, but called themselves
a "convention" and as such, having before them a list of
the names of all the persons who had been elected to this
legislature, those absent as well as those present, they
nominated from the list before them the requisite number
to constitute an Executive Council, but while the number
thus nominated to be an Executive Council was sufficient,
and while all of them were probably present, they were
not called an Executive Council, but a "Committee," be
cause the body which nominated them, being a mere mi
nority of the House of Assembly, was not competent to
select an Executive Council. Hence the body naming
them was not called a "House of Assembly" but a "Con
vention," and the body named was called a "Committee,"
not an Executive Council.

Finally, on the 27th of July, 1779, about twenty-five

WITHOUT ORGANIZED GOVERNMENT. 403

members of the legislature, elected in the preceding De
cember, met in Augusta, the British having previously
evacuated that place, and in conjunction with a number
of leading patriots, not members, formed a convention
which, to avoid further continuance of the anarchy which
prevailed, adopted, signed and promulgated the following
document appointing a body of nine persons of the high
est character for patriotism and integrity, all members-
elect to the legislature, to act as a "Supreme Executive
Council," clothing them with all the powers conferred
by the constitution on the Executive Department, and ad
monishing them to adhere strictly to the spirit of the
constitution.

"STATE OF GEORGIA, RICHMOND COUNTY.

"WHEREAS, from the invasion of the British forces in
this State great evils have arisen and still exist to disturb
the civil government of the said State, and which, in a
great measure, have prevented the Constitution of the
land from being carried into such full effect as to answer
the purposes of government therein pointed out: And
whereas, it becomes incumbent and indispensably necessa
ry at this juncture to adopt such temporary mode as may
be most conducive to the welfare, happiness, and security
of the rights and privileges of the good people of the said
State, and the maintenance and existence of legal and ef
fective authority in the same as far as the exigence of
affairs requires, until a time of less disquiet shall happen
and the Constitution take its regular course ; to the end
therefore that government may prevail and be acknowl
edged, to prevent as far as may be anarchy and confusion
from continuing among us, and fully to support the laws
of the land derived under the Constitution thereof : We
therefore, the representatives of the people of the Coun
ties of Wilkes, Richmond, Burke, Effingham, Chatham,

404 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

Liberty, Glynn, Camden, and other freemen of the State,
having convened and met in the County of Richmond in
the State aforesaid for the purposes of considering the
present disturbed situation of the State, and for applying
as far as is in our power some remedy thereto, and having
maturely and seriously considered the same, do recommend
that the following persons be appointed by the good peo
ple of this State to exercise the supreme authority thereof,
who shall, before they enter on the execution of their
office, take the following oath, viz: I, A. B., elected one
of the Supreme Executive Council of the State of Geor
gia, do solemnly swear that I will, during the term of my
appointment, to the best of my skill and judgment, ex
ecute the said office faithfully and conscientiously, without
favor, affection, or partiality; that I will, to the utmost
of my power, support, maintain, and defend the State
of Georgia, and use my utmost endeavors to support the
people thereof in the secure enjoyment of their just rights
and privileges; and that I will, to the best of my judg
ment, execute justice and mercy in all judgments: so
help me God.

"And we, and each of us, on our parts, as free citizens
of the State of Georgia aforesaid, do for ourselves nomi
nate, authorize, tmpower and require you, John Wereat,
Joseph Clay, Joseph Habersham, Humphrey Wells, Wil
liam Few, John Dooly, Seth John Cuthbert, William Gib
bons, senior, and My rick Davies, Esquires, or a majority
of you, to act as the Executive Supreme Council of this
State : and to execute from Tuesday, the twenty-seventh
instant, to the first Tuesday in January next, unless
sooner revoked by a majority of the freemen of this
State, every such power as you, the said John Wereat,
Joseph Clay, Joseph Habersham, Humphrey Wells, Wil
liam Few, John Dooly, Seth John Cuthbert, William Gib
bons, senior and My rick Davies, Esquires, or a majority

SUPREME EXECUTIVE COUNCIL. 405

of you shall deem necessary for the safety and defence
of the State and the good citizens thereof ; taking care in
all your proceedings to keep as near the spirit and mean
ing of the Constitution of the said State as may be.

"And you the said John Wereat, Joseph Clay, Joseph
Habersham, Humphrey Wells, William Few, John Dooly,
Seth John Cuthbert, William Gibbons, senior, and Myrick
Davies, Esquires, or a majority of you, hereby have full
power and authority, and are authorized, empowered,
and required, to elect fit and discrete persons to repre
sent this State in Congress, and to instruct the delegates
so chosen in such matters and things as will tend to the
interest of this State in particular, and the United States'
of America in general : the said delegates taking care,
from time to time, to transmit to you, the said Council,
or other authority of the State for the time being, an ac
count of their proceedings in Congress aforesaid : to regu
late the public treasury of the said State, to borrow or
otherwise negotiate loans for the public safety : to regu
late the militia, and appoint an officer, if necessary, to
command : to appoint, suspend, and discharge all civil
officers if it shall be found expedient; to demand an ac
count of all expenditures of public money, and to regulate
the same, and, where necessary, order payments of
money : to adopt some mode respecting the current money
of this State, and for sinking the same : to direct and
commission the Chief Justice of the State, or assistant
Justices, or other Justices of the Peace, and other officers
of each County: to convene courts for the trial of of
fences cognizable by the laws of the land in such place
or places as you shall think fit : always taking care that
trial by jury be preserved inviolate, and that the proceed
ings had before such courts be in a summary way so that
offenders be brought to a speedy trial and justice be amply
done as well to the State as to the individuals.

406 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

"You, or a majority of you, the said council, have full
power and hereby are requested, on conviction of offend
ers, to order punishment to be inflicted extending to death;
and when objects deserving mercy shall be made known
to you, to extend that mercy and pardon the offence, remit
all fines, mitigate corporal punishments, as the case may
be, and as to you or a majority of you shall seem fit and
necessary. And you, the said Council or a majority of
you, at all times and places when and where you shall
think fit, have hereby full power and competent authority
to meet, appoint your own President, settle your own
rules, sit, consult, deliberate, advise, direct, and carry in
execution all and every act, special and general, hereby
delegated to you, and all and every such other acts, meas
ures, and things as you or a majority of you shall find
expedient and necessary for the welfare, safety, and hap
piness of the freemen of this State.

"And in case any of the persons herein appointed to
exercise the supreme authority as aforesaid shall refuse
to act, die, or depart this State, or shall by any other
means be prevented from exercising the same, then, and
in such case, you the said Council hereby chosen, or a
majority of you, shall, and you are hereby authorized,
empowered, and required to fill up such vacancies bv
choosing fit and discrete persons or person to act in their
or his room and stead, which person or persons so chosen
is or are hereby invested with every power and authority
in as full and ample manner as if they had been appointed
by this present instrument of writing.

"And we do hereby declare all officers, civil and milita
ry, and all persons, inhabitants of this State, subject to
and answerable to your authority, and will ratify and con
firm whatever you may do for or concerning the public
weal, according to the best of your judgment, knowledge,
and ability. And further, we do hereby promise you our
support, protection, and countenance.

SUPREME EXECUTIVE COUNCIL. 407

"In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands
this twenty-fourth day of July in the year of our Lord
1 779-"

The Supreme Executive Council elected John Wereat
President of the body, and he at once assumed the duties
of Governor and discharged these duties as best he could
under the unfavorable circumstances which surrounded
him. Among other things he issued the following procla
mation :

"AUGUSTA, IN THE STATE OE GEORGIA,

November 4, 17/9.

"Whereas, from the invasion of the State by the enemy,
in December last, the absence of many of the members
elected to represent the different counties in the House of
Representatives for the present year, with unavoidable
causes, several ineffectual attempts have been made to
convene a Legal House of Representatives : and whereas,
it is essential to the welfare and happiness of the State
that a Legal and Constitutional House of Assembly should
be convened : \Ye, therefore, earnestly recommend to
such of the citizens of this State as have preserved their
fidelity to the cause of America, and were inhabitants of
the counties of Chatham, Liberty, Glynn, Camden, and
Efnngham prior to the reduction of these counties by the
British forces, to repair to such place within this State
as to them shall appear most safe and convenient, on the
first Tuesday in December next, that being the day ap
pointed by the Constitution for a general election through
out the State, in order to elect persons to represent those
counties in the General Assembly for the ensuing year,
that a full, free, and equal representation may be had to
proceed on business of the utmost importance to the com
munity ; and it is the opinion of this Board, that this town
would be the most eligible, in the present situation of

408 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

affairs, for the meeting of the Assembly, which will be
the first Tuesday in January next, agreeable to the Con
stitution of the State.

JOHN WEREAT, President."
"By order of the Board."

In the meantime George Walton, George Wells, Rich
ard Howley, and their partisan friends, violently assailed
the Supreme Executive Council, charging that they were
usurpers and that at least some of them were disloyal and
in sympathy with the Tories, and, finally, by a bold stroke
of usurpation, held impromptu elections in Augusta in
which refugees from the lower counties, and many others,
voted and elected members to an unconstitutional body
which they called a legislature, all the partisan friends of
Walton, Howley and Wells. These men, together with
a few members elected at the December election who had
not participated in the convention that appointed the Su
preme Executive Council, at once assembled at Augusta,
organized by electing William Glasscock, Speaker, and
on the 4th of November elected Walton Governor and
appointed from their own body an Executive Council.
Thus there were, for the remainder of the year 17/9, two
Executive Councils and two persons, Walton and Wereat,
exercising the executive powers at the same time. Wereat
and those who elected him their President seem to have
been actuated by motives of pure patriotism and an
earnest desire to save the distracted and devastated state
from the further evils of anarchy; Walton, Wells and
Howley, by jealousy, inordinate ambition and a desire
for power and place. Walton's legislature continued in
session for the remainder of the year and its actions,
especially those in reference to General Mclntosh, re
flected no credit on it.

When the first Tuesday in December, 1779, came the

CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT. 409

people elected members for anew legislature in accordance
with the proclamation of President Wereat, and the pro
visions of the constitution. This legislature met in Au
gusta on the 4th day of January, 1 780, and elected Rich
ard Howley Governor, and selected from their own body
a new Executive Council, according to law, and consti
tutional government was again, for a brief period, re
stored after a year of discord, faction and anarchy.

But it was only for a brief period. In May, 1780,
Charleston was captured and occupied by the British, and
a month later Augusta was occupied by Brown and Grier-
son, the two notorious Tory leaders, and British soldiers
were scattered all over both states. Prior to this, the
General Assembly, aware of the defenseless condition of
Augusta, and "deeming it unsafe and impolitic for the
Governor and Council to remain thus exposed, desig
nated Heard's Fort, in Wilkes County, as a suitable place
of meeting for transacting the business of the govern
ment of this State."

The Executive Council, acting on this suggestion, ad
journed on the 5th of February to meet at Heard's Fort.
Governor Howley went to Philadelphia to take his seat
in the Continental Congress to which he had been elected,
and the executive powers and duties were entrusted to
George Wells, the President, and three other members of
the Executive Council. In a few days after he assumed
the duties of Chief Executive, President Wells was killed
in a duel by James Jackson, and Stephen Heard was
chosen President of the Council. When Mr. Heard "re
tired to North Carolina" Myrick Davies was elected
President. Thus, during nearly all the year 1780, the
executive powers were exercised by three members of
the Council, Wells, Heard and Davies, in a Fort near
where the town of Washington now stands. The entire

410 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

state had been overrun and was held by the British ex
cept two counties, Richmond and Wilkes, and the cause
of the patriots seemed lost beyond recovery. A pall of
gloom hung over the devastated land until June, 1781,
when the British commander at Augusta, together with
the entire force under his command, was captured by Gen
eral Pickens and Colonel Lee, and that important post
restored to the patriots. This was the beginning of the
end of British rule in Georgia. Most of the state was
recovered, and in August a Legislature was assembled at
Augusta. Whether this legislature was elected on the
first Tuesday in December, 1780, at the regular time pro
vided in the constitution, or at a special election after the
enemy had been driven from the upper and middle parts
of the state, there are no records to show ; but it is
probable that the members were chosen at special elections
after the capture of Augusta, for the entire state, except
two counties, being in the hands of the enemy in Decem
ber 1780, it is not probable that elections could have been
held at that time in any counties other than Richmond
and Wilkes, if indeed in them.

As to who ordered these special elections we are left
to conjecture, for under the constitution and the law no
one had authority to do it, the terms of office of both
Governor Howley and his executive Council having ex
pired in January, 1781. It is probable, however, that,
inasmuch as the semblance of civil government remaining
in the state had been exercised during the year, 1780, by
three or four members of Howley's Council at Heard's
Fort, they ordered it. No matter when, or by whom it
was ordered, it was held, and a legislature elected which
assembled at Augusta in August, 1781. It organized by
electing John Jones, Speaker, and on the i6th it elected
Doctor Nathan Brownson Governor for the remainder
of the year. Edward Telfair, William Pew, Noble Wyni-

CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT. 411

berly Jones and Samuel Stirk were chosen delegates to
the Continental Congress. This legislature enacted sev
eral important laws, among them the following : —

"An act declaring certain persons who are therein de
scribed citizens of this State, and for burying in oblivion
certain high crimes and misdemeanors."

"An Act to continue the several acts heretofore made
in the then province of Georgia, and also all acts made
and passed by the several conventions, congresses and
Houses of Assembly of the State of Georgia."

"An Act for the prevention of internal conspiracies and
for empowering certain committees therein named to ex
amine into the conduct of certain suspicious persons."

On the first Tuesday in December, 1781, the day fixed
in the constitution, members of the legislature for 1782,
were elected in the several counties. This legislature met
in Augusta on the first day of January, and on the second,
John Martin was elected Governor.

In this running review of occurrences during the
progress of the struggle for independence we have now
arrived at the period from which we have been able to
find Minutes of the Executive Department and Journals
of the Legislature which are printed in the next and suc
ceeding volumes of our compilation. To these we refer
the reader for information concerning the civil govern
ment of the state during he remainder of the Revolution
ary period, and bring this introductory narrative to a
close.

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 413

Under the Act of May 4, 1782, providing£for the con
fiscation of the estates of persons who had, during the
struggle, been disloyal to the state, and the selection by
the House of Assembly of a Commission consisting of
two persons from each county, except Glynn and Camden
from which there should be one commissioner, to take
possession of and sell, for the benefit of the State, all the
property, both real and personal, of the disloyal, a Com
mission was organized and began its ^work on the
thirteenth day of the following June. Among the
archives of the State is found the following imperfect
Journal of the transactions of this Commission.

414

REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

At a Board of Commissioners held at the Town of
Ebenezer in the County of Erfingham, for the Sales of
Confiscated Estates in the county of Chatham on the T3th
day of June 1782

Present

John Baker
Josiah Powel
Charles Odingsells
Thomas Washington
John Mc Lean

Thomas Lewis
Peter Paris
James Martin
Daniel Coleman

1782

JOHN WARD

Dr

June

i3th

To 1000 Acres Landv

late the property of

Wm Knox and known 1

M

by the Name of Knox- '

5400:

o

0

o

borAugh@£5:8/pr.

Acre

To 250 Acres of Land^i

late the property of |

M

James Graham on }•

3412:

10 :

o

Hutchinson Island @ j

£13 : 13; per Acre J

To 140 Acres of Land"

late the property of

Sir James Wright

on Great Ogechee -

2989

known by the River

plantation @ £21 : 7/

per Acre

To 500 Acres of Land^j

late the property of

Sir James Wright pine |

land, and known by >

150:

o :

o

the name of Fort Ar-

gyle Tract @ 6/ per

Acre J

£11951:

10 :

o

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 415

1782

PER. CONTRA.

Cr

June

By Bond Number -32
By Ditto N° -33
By Ditto N° -34
By Ditto N° 35

The above Bonds
were delivered to
his honor the Govr.
& Council the 22d
Aug'. 1782 as per
Receipt.

£ 2989
3412
5400

£11951

10 :

10 :

416 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 JOHN MOORE

June

13th

To 700 Acres of Land ^j

late the property Wil- j

M

Ham Knox on Savan- }•

L 3570

o :

o

nah River @ L5 : 2/

pr Acre

L 3570

SAMUEL ELBERT

Dr

June

13

To 140 Acres on G.~")

Ogeechee late S i r j

M

James Wright's }> £ 2947

known by the Point j

plantation at £21 : i J

per Acre

1783

Jan-T

3d

To 8 Acres on Tybee "J

late John Graham at V

40

8

M

£5: i per Acre J

£ 2987

8

*

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 417
1782 PER CONTRA C1

June

13

By Bond Number 13 de

livered to his honor the

Govr: in Council as per

Receipt IIth December

1782

£ 357°

o :

0

£ 357°

PER CONTRA

cr

June

13th By Bond Number 52 de-

livered to his honor the

Governor in Council as

per Receipt 27 January

1783

£ 2947:

1783

Jany

3

By Bond Number 53 de

livered to his honor the

Govr: in Council as per

Receipt 27th Jan-v. 1783

40.

8

£ 2987

8

i7 r r— vol 1

418

REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

MESS" CLAY, OBRYEN & HOWLEY FOR GEN
ERALS GREENE & WAYNE.
1782 Dr

June

13th

To 1000 Acres Land^

late the property of

Alexander Wright on )>

3400

Savannah River @ 1

£ 3: 8/ pr Acre

To 847 Acres Land^

late the property of

John Graham &

known by the Name [

2752:

15-

0

of New Settlement

@ £ 3: 5/ pr Acre

To 1224 Acres of Land^)

late the property of

John Graham known ,

by the name of Mul- [

4345

4:

0

berry Grove @ £ 3 : |

1 1/ pr Acie J

To 300 Acres of Land "

late the property of

Sir James Wright on

Great Ogechee known •
by the Name of Mul- 1

4515:

o :

0

berry Grove @ £15:

i/ pr Acre

£ 15512

J9

o

MrsHANNAH GIBBONS

500 Acres late Nathan- ^

iel Hall's (known by 1

Morton Hall) at £ 8: \

4050

2 per Acre — J

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 419
1782 PER CONTRA Cr

By a resolve of
House of Assembly J
General Greene was }•
voted £5000 and Gen1.
Wayne £4000

9000

o :; o

420 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 JACOB READ Dr

June

13th

To 560 Acres of Land']

on Ila Island late the |

M

property of Green- J.
wood & Higginson

7280

£ 13 pr A.

M

To 100 Acres of Land

opposite the above

Tract

349

M

To 500 Acres of Land^

late the property of 1

Sir James Wright on |

G. Ogechee p i n e >

37:

10

Land, joins Savage,

Feaster & Cherry @

1/6 pr A

M

To 300 Acres of Land^|

property as above 1

joins Jacob Read @ f

22 :

IO

1/6 pr A. J

one Moiety or half part ^

of a House & Lot on

the Bay in Savannah 1

late the property of [

355

W.Wylly and Camp-

ble Wylly_

710 :

o

j j • j

/

f*i

£8399

o

o

N. B first Tything Ryn-

alds Ward, formerly

Margaret Cages's —

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 421
1782 PER CONTRA Cr

June

i3th

By Bond Number 29^

delivered to his honor |

the Govr & Council J.

7689:

o :

o

22 August 1682 as |

per Rec1

The house and Lot^j

Coll: RichdWylly has |

claimed which was )-

710:

o :

o

the reason Mr. Read j

did not comply J

By Mr Seth John/ Cuth-

bert Rec' dat / ed ioth

June 1785 /for

355

*/

£ 8399

0

0

422 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 WILLIAM SKIRVING Dr

June

i3'h

To 200 Acres of Land^j

late the property of [

M

William Thompson
on Savannah River

>

2850:

o :

0

@ 14: 5/ pr A.

To 800 Acres of Land"

on Great Ogechee op

posite Capt. Mckays
the property of Tho8

,

6600

Gibbons at £ 8 157 pr

Acre

£ 9450

o :

o

1782

COLL: JOHN MCINTOSH

D-

June

13th

To 450 Acres of Land"

late George Kingcade

on Savannah River

called the upper plan

*

4072:

10 :

0

tation @. £ 9. i/ pr

Acre

s

£ 4072

10

13th

To 600 Acres late Sam- "1

uel Douglass on Au-
gustins Creek at £ 2:

-

1260

2 pr Acre

1783

£ 53321

10

JanT

3

To 100 Acres on White ""]

Marsh Island British !

property N° 3 at £ 4: j

430

6 per Acre

£ 5762:

JO

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 423
1782 PER CONTRA C'

By Bond Number 4 de-^)
livered to his honor j

the Govr & Council [•
the 22'1 August 1782
as pr Recc

2850:

o :

C

The 800 Acres Mr Jo
seph Gibbons lays a
claim to, which until
it is divided Mr Skir-

vin would not comply

-

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

By Bond Number 12 de-

liver'd to his honor the

Govr & Council as per
Receipt IIth December

1782

By Bond Number 42 de
livered to his honor the

4072:

10 :

C

£ 4072

10

Govr and Council as per
Receipt 27th Jany 1783

1260

£ 5332 :

IO

By Bond Number 2 de-^j
livered to his honor

the Governor in Coun- V
cil as per Rect. 27th
Jan7 1 783

43°

£ 5762

IO

424 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 COLL : A. W. WHITE Dr

June
M

i3th

To half the Island of )
S' Catharines . . . j

4500

LUCIA MURRAY

Dr

June
M

i3th

To a house and Lot in ^
Savan nah late Saml : V
Parleys )

£ 700

1782

MAJOR RICH'1 CALL

Dr

June
M

i3th

To 500 Acres of Land~]
on Savannah River j
late the property of )>
George Kingcade @ j
£ 8 : 5 pr Acre

To 450 Acres on Great
Ogechee late Sir James
Wrights known by
Sandy hill at £ 9 : 10

4125

4275

£ 8400

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 425
1782 PER CONTRA Cr

By Bond Number 37 de
livered to his honor the

Govr & Council as per
Rec' i Ith December

1782

4500

PER CONTRA

O

June

13

By Bond Number 51 de
livered to his honor the

Govr in Council as per
Receipt n Decr 1782

£ 700

1782

-

PER CONTRA

Cr

June

i3th

By Bond Number 19 de-~)
livered to his honor

the Govr & Council J>
the 22d August 1782 |
as per Rec' J

4125:

o :

0

By Bond Number n de-^j
livered to his honor |

the Govr in Council V
as per Rec1 27 Jany |

1733

4275

£ 8400

426 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 JOSEPH WOODRUFFE Dr

June

i3th

To 500 Acres of Land^

late the property of

Lewis Johnson join

h

175

M

ing Kingcades @ 7/

pr Acre

1782

JOHN MORELL

Dr

June

i3th

To 250 Acres of Land^

late the property of

M

Sam1 Douglass on Sa

vannah River known

>

2262 :

10 :

o

bv the Name of

Tweed Sides © £ 9 :

i/ pr Acre _,

To 500 Acres of Land on ""

M

Great Ogechee Neck |

late the property of >

275 :

o :

o

John Mullyrne @ n/

pr Acre _,

M

To a House and Lot in }

Savannah late where V

53^

o :

0

Reid & Stor lived J

To a House and Lot in "1

M

Savannah late the !
property Lewis John- [

680:

o :

o

ston J

£ 3748 :

10 :

o

JN« MCQUEEN

To half the Island S* Cath

arines late Rob* Porteus

& Alexander Rose

4500

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 427
1782 PER CONTRA Cr

June

13th

By Bond Number 17 de
livered to his honor
the Govr & Council as
per Receipt nth De
cember 1782

175

1782

PER CONTRA

e

June

13th

By Bond Number 27^
delivered to his honor j
the Govr & Council }•
as per Receipt 22 Au- j
gust 1782

3748

I

IO

£ 3748

10 :

o

428 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 PETER DEVEAUX Dr

June
M

i3th

To 400 Acres of Land ^
on Savannah River,
late the property of
Basil Cowper, known
by the Name of the
Grange (Q 2 : i/ pr
Acre

>

820

£ 820

1782

EDWARD DAVIES

Dr

Octobr

21st

To 130 Acres of Land"
late Basil Cowpers,
about two Miles from
Savannah at £ 4 : i
per Acre _,

£ 526:

IO

£ 526

IO

JOHN KEAN

Dr

June

i3tb

To 200 Acres of Land^
on H u t c h i n s o n s

Island late the prop
erty of Capt. Wm Mc-
Gillivray at £ 13 : 10
pr Acre

'

2600 :

o :

0

To 200 Acres of Land""

on hutchinsonslsland

late the property of
Lachn McGillivray @
£ 13 : io/ pr Acre

2700 :

o :

o

,£ 53°°

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 429
1782 PER CONTRA Cr

June

I3

By Bond Number 24"")
delivered to his honor

the Govr & Council V

820

as per Receipt the 22 j
August 1782

—

£ 820

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

Octobr

21"

By Bond Number 50 de
livered his honor the

Governor in Council as

per Receipt 27th Jany
1783

526:

10

£ 526

10

1782

PER CONTRA

C'

June

13th

By Bond Number 9 de
livered to his honor the

Govr & Council as per
Rec1 the 22d August
1782

5300:

o :

o

£ 5300

430 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 THOMAS STONE D1

June

„»

To 200 Acres of Land^i

M

on hutchinson Island, I
late ln. McGillivrays >
lower plantation at
£ 14 pr. A. J

2800 :

o :

o

1783
Jany

3

To 500 Acres of Land^|
late Alexr Wylly's
on Great Ogechee ,
neck adjoining lands '
of Stiles and Savage
@ 5/ pr. Acre J

To 300 Acres of Land on
White Marsh N° 4
known by Jenkins point
at £ 6 : i per Acre

125:

o :

o

£ 2925 :

o :

o

1815

To a Phaeton at Belfast
late John Glen's

49

£4789

1782,

THOMAS WASHING
TON

Dr

June

13'"

To 100 Acres Land late
the property of John
Murray knowrn by the
Name of the Hermitage
@ £ 3 : ;/ p. A.

335 :

o :

0

M

A house and lot in Sa
vannah late Wm. Wyllys
near Truans

410

A house and lot on the

M

Bay in Savannah late
the property Jn°. Wands

43°

£ 1175

o :

o

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 431
1782 PER CONTRA Cr

June

13

By Bond Number 10^

delivered to his honor j

the Govr & Council j>

2925

as per Rec' 22d Au

gust 1782 J

£ 2925

1783

By Bond Number 28 de

Jan^

3

livered to his honor the

Governor in Council as

per Receipt 27 January

1783

1815

By Bond Number 77 de

livered to his honor the

Governor in Council as

receipt 27th Jany 1783

49

£ 4789

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

June

13th

By Bond Number 9 de

livered to his honor the

Govr & Council, as per

Receipt n Decr 1782

"75 :

o:

0

£ H7«5

432 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 SAMUEL STIRK Dr

June

I3

To 200 Acres Land on ^)
Hutchinson Island 1
late Jas Mossmans at [
£ 13 per Acre

2600

To 200 Acres joining "|
the above property as >
above £ 14 : 2 pr A j

2820

To a house and Lot on

the Bay property as
above

1180

M

To 150 Acres of Land^j
late Sir Jamesj
Wrights and adjoin- V
ing the Trustees
Farm £ 14 : 8 pr A

2160

£ 8760

1782

JOHN WEREAT

Dr

June

13th

To 40 Acres of Land^j
known by the name !
of Flemmings Island |
£4 pr A

160 :

o :

c

To a house and lot in"]
Savannah property j
Tho8 Flernming J>
known by Mahouys j
Tavern J

475

To 300 Acres of Land "|
onSkidowaylateSut- >
cliffs J

270

£ 905

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 433
1782 PER CONTRA Cr

June

13th

By Bond Number 15^
delivered to his honor j

the Govr in Council V

6600

as per Receipt 22d |
August 1782

By Bond Number 55 ^
delivered to his honor j
the Govr in Council \-

2160

as per Receipt nth |
December i 782 J

j

£ 8760

1782

PER. CONTRA

Cr

June

13th

By Bond Number 22^)
delivered to his honor j

the Govr in Council }•
as per Receipt n j
Decr 1782

270

By Bond Number 24^)
delivered to his honor j

the Govr in Council }•
as per Receipt n |
Decr 1782 }

635

£ 905

|

18 r r -vol 1

434 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 JOSEPH CLAY Dr

June

13th

To 60 Acres of Land^j

near Musgrove Creek, |

M

late the property of )>

759

Jno Joachim Zubly |

at £ 12 : I3/ pr Acre )

M

To a lot at Yamacraw )

property as above /

75

To a Lot. D° D°

T.O

J

To 500 Acres of Land^j

late the property of !
G. Fox on little Oge- f

775

chee at 317 pr Acre j

To 500 Acres of Land^)

between Ogechee and I

Canauchee property }>

2575

of Sir James Wright |

at £ 5 : 3/pr Acre

M

To 445 Acres late"")

June

*3

Lach11 M°Gillivrays, 1
called (Spring Field) f

1357

5

-

at £ 3 : i pr Acre

M

To 300 Acres late"")

Tho' Wylly's on 1

T r*/"*\

Black Creek at io/ |

I5°

pr Acre )

M

To 1000 Acres late^

Lachn McGillivray's I
called Vale Royal at J

6200

£6. 4 pr A

'

£11,921 •

5

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 435
1782 PER CONTRA Cr

June

i Vh

By Bond Number 15 de
livered to his honor the
Govr in Council as per
Rec' nth December
1782

By Bond Number 16 de
livered to his honor the
Govr in Council as per
Receipt n Decr 1782

150
1357:

5

By Bond Number 18 de
livered to his honor the
Governor in Council as
per Receipt 1 1 Decri782

10414

£11,921 :

5

436 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 WILLIAM O BR YEN D'

June

n-

To 500 Acres of Land,^
late Thomas Young's 1
adjoining Kilkany at f
367 pr A J

900 :

o :

o

M

To 500 Acres of Land")
known by the Name !
of the Ship Yard at f
£ 2 : 2/ pr Acre J

1050

M

To 500 Acres lateGrif-^j
fith Williams British 1
property at 147 pr f
Acre

350:

0

£ 2200

0

1782

MESS" O BRYEN &
STIRK

Dr

1782

MESS" O BRYEN &
STIRK

Dr

June

i3th

To 200 Acres late^j

Lightinstonson

M

• I

Skidoway at 257 pr f

250

Acre J

M

To a lot on the Bay in

Savannah late Tisdale's

420

M

To a house and Lot late

Rob* Smith's

465

M

To a house and lot late

Hume's

665

To a brick house and Lot

at Yamacra late Revd

Zubly's__

48^

M

To a Lot, Stores and

TO

\Vharf late Sam1 Dou

glass

655

M

To a Lot late Jn° John

stons

2OO

To a house and Lot late

Jn° Simpsons

325

£ 3465

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 437
1782 PER CONTRA C

June

13'"

By Bond Number 56
delivered to his honor

the Governor in Coun

cil as per Rec' i r De
cember 1782

2292 :

10

.

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

June

13th

By bond Number 7 de
livered his honor the

Governor in Council as

per Receipt n Decr
1782

3140

By M" Lewis produce-^
ing her Titles to the
Lot sold for Jn° Simp
sons before the Com-

mi ssi o ners, they
agreed it was her
Lawf nil property
therefore Mess" Clay
& O Bryen declined
giveing this Bond

"•

325

£ 3465 =

438 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 HAMPTON LELLIBRIDGE Dr

June
M

13th

To 150 Acres of Land
late Sir James Wright's
middle plantation at
£ 15 : 1 8 pr A.

2385

M

To 500 Acres on G. ")
Ogechee Neck Brit- |
ish property adjoin- J>
ing lands G. Williams |
at I2/ pr Acre }

300

£ 2685

1782

COLL: JA" JACKSON

Dr

June

i3'h

To half a lot with im- ^j

provements opposite !
Sam1 Parleys late Jo- [
siah Tatnell j

855

M

To 150 Acres late Sir']
James Wrights lower i
plantation at £ 14 : \
137 pr Acre }

2197:

10

£ 3052

10

_

1782

DOCTOR BEECROFT

Dr

June

13th

To 20.0 Acres of Land^)
known by Ottalin- |
goes Island in S' \
Augustine Creek, late
Collin Campbells

230

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 439
1782 PER CONTRA Cr

June

i3th

By Bond Number i de-^|
livered his honor the j

Governor in Council |
as per receipt 22d |
August 1782

2385

By Bond Number 26^
delivered his honor

the Govr in Council '
as per Receipt 22d
August i 782 j

>

300

—

£ 2685

1782

PER CONTRA

C

June

i Vb

By a resolve of the^
honorable house of

Assembly, makeing
Coll : Jackson a com
pliment of Tatnells
Lot for his Services

>

855

rendered the State >

By Bond Number 10 de

livered his honor the

Govr in Council as per
Rec1 ii Decr 1782

2197:

10

£ 3052 :

10

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

June

J3

By Bond Number 5 de
livered his honor the

Govr in Council as per
Rec' ii Decr 1782

230

440 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 PETER TAARLIN Dr

June

13th

To 250 Acres late Rob* )
Porteus called Pern- V
brooke at 2i/ pr Acre )

262 :

10

To a house and Lot in

M

Savannah late David

Zublys Junr

260-

£ 522

IO

i

1782

RICHARD WYLLY

Dr

June

If

To 30 Acres late Tat-
nells near the Town of

M

Savannah at £ n : n/
p'A.

346:

10

To 600 Acres formerly ^

M

the property of M"
Russell and now Jo- }>
siah Tatnel at £3. 3 j
pr Acre J

1890

To a house and lot in^j
Savannah late the

property of Alexan- !
der Wylly were doc- [
tor Irvine formerly |
lived J

420

£ 2656

10

1782

JAMES DIWOD1E

Dr

Octr

21st

To i pair hand mill
stones late Sir James
Wrights

TO

£ 10

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 441
1782 PER CONTRA Cr

June

i3th

By Bond Number 20 de
livered to his honor the

Govr in Council as per
Rec' 1 1 Decr 1782

522:

10

£ 522

10

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

June

13th

By Bond Number i de
livered to his honor the

Govr in Council as per
Rec1 n Decr 1782

2310

Bv Bond Number 8 de

livered to his honor the

Govr in Council as per
Receipt n Dec1" 1782

346

IO

£ 2656 10

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

Octoty

T9

By Bond Number 5 de-^j
livered to his honor

the Governor, as per )>
Receipt 9th April |

1783 J

10

£ 10

442 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 JOHN HABERSHAM Dr

June

M

13

To 750 Acres late John i
Mullrynes at a8/ pr >
Acre )

To 400 Acres late Ben j" |

Parleys at £ 4 : 1 2 [

1

To a house and Lot in^
Savannah both Ben !
Parleys were Mr Thos |
Bailie formerly lived J

To a house and Lot at )
Yamacra late John >
Glenn's j

1050:
1840

140

0 :

O
O

£ 3030

0

43°

£ 3460

1782

JOHN WILKINSON

Dr

June

i3th

To 150 Acres late John^j
Mullrynes known by 1
Thunderbolt at £ 3: f
21 pr Acre

465

1782

PETER PARIS

Dr

June

J3

To 200 Acres late DaO
vid Johnstons on 1
White Bluff at £ 3 : (
7Pr A

670

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 443
1782 PER CONTRA Cr

June

13th

By Bond Number iS^j
delivered to his honor |

the Governor in ^
Council as per Rec'

22d AllgtlSt 1782

3460

£ 3460

i

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

June

i3lh

By Bond Number 14
delivered to his honor

the Govr in Council V
as per Rec' 22 Au- [
gust 1782

465

1782

PER CONTRA

e

June

13th

the said tract was given
up by JVF Paris to Da
vid Johnston he being
taken off the Confisca

tion Act

444 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 JOHN HOUSTOUN Dr

June

1 3th

To 50 Acres late Rob'
Mccormicks at White

bluff at 51 pr Acre

127 : 10

To half a Lot in Savan

nah late Chapmans

67:

10

1782

Wm PEARCE &
NATH1 PENDLETON

Dr

June

13"

To 700 Acres late Tho' ^j
Johnstons at 287 pr V
Acre J

980

1782

THOMAS NETHER-
CLIFFT

Dr

June

13

To 400 Acres late Tho8 |
Reids adjoining Tho' V
Johnstons at 2i/ pr A. J

420

To 500 Acres, known }
-by Green Island at >
187 per Acre )

45°

+ Page 25 the 400 Acres
settled for by Cha9
Odingsells

870

M

To 500 Acres on Sa-^
vannah late Rob1 |
Porteus joining Raes
Creek and M"

2775

Youngs at £ 5 : 1 1
pr Acre J

£ 3645

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 445
1782 PER CONTRA Cr

June

13th

By Bond Number 54 de
livered to his honor the

Govr in Council as per
Rec1 ii Decr 1782

j
127:

10

i

1782

PER CONTRA

cr

June

i3th

By Bond Number 31^1
delivered to his honor j

the Govr in Council J>
as per Rec1 22d Au- |
gust 1782

980

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

June

*3 *

By Bond Number 73^)
delivered to his honor |

the Govr in Council !>
as per Receipt n j
Decr 1782

£ 870

By Bond Number 74 ^
delivered to his honor j

the Govr in Council V
as per Receipt n |
Decr 1782 J

2775

£ 3645

446 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.
1782 JAMES MARTIN Dr

June
M

To 200 Acres of Land"")
on G. Ogechee late 1
Jn° Fox's Junr at 197 [
pr Acre J

To a lot in Savannah,^)
late Sir J ames !
Wrights adjo i n i n g (
Mordeica Sheftalls J

190
170

£ 360

1782

JOHN WAUDIN

Dr

June

13

To 500 Acres, late Sam1 ")
Douglass on 1 i 1 1 1 e >
Ogechee a 1 1/ pr Acre J

A house and Lot in")
Savannah late James >
Johnstons J

275:
365:

£ 640

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 447
1782 PER CONTRA Cr

Octr

2 Ist

By Bond Number 3")

delivered to his honor j

the Governor as per >

170

Receipts 13th July

1783 J

The 200 Acres on Oge-

chee is given up by

James Martin, James

Thompson cla i m i n g

said Tract as his prop

erty

1782

PER CONTRA

e

June

13th

By Bond Number 16

delivered to his honor
the Govr in Council

640

as per Rec' 22* Au

gust 1782

448 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

JOHN LUCAS D'

June
Al

*•

To 500 Acres, late^j
Lewis Johnson Junr 1
on G. Ogechee Neck j
@ 157 Pr A

375

To 600 Acres, British "|

M

property on Little
Ogechee joining Jn° }>
Fox Junr at 1 1/ pr
Acre

33°

To a house and Lot in^

M

Savannah late Jn° I
Simpson near the bur- j
rying Ground

TOO

To a house and Lot late )
Henry Yonge junr )

475

£ 1280

1782

JOHN HARDY

Dr

June

•3»

To 150 Acres Land,^
late Thomas Gold- |

Al

smiths adjoining Jn° I ;
Jenkens on Great Oge- [
chee Neck at £3. 4/pr
Acre

480:

o :

0

M

To 500 Acres on Great ^
Ogechee Neck Brit- j
ish property, adjoin- J>
ing Griffith Williams |
at i3/pr A.

325-

M

To 1000 Acres of Land,^
a back Tract on Great |

Ogechee Neck and 1
known by Governor j
Reynold's at io/ pr
Acre

500-

£ i3°5

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 449
1782 PER CONTRA Cr

June

*

By Bond Number 5^

delivered his honor |

the Govr in Council }•

575

as per Recf 22d An- |

gust 1782 \

By Bond Number 4 de

livered his honor the

Govr in Council as per

Rec1 IIth Decr 1782

705

£ 1280

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

June

13

By Bond Number 20 ~)

delivered to his honor |

the Governor in Conn- \

£ 1^05

cil as per Receipt 22d |

August 1782 J

^1305

29 I r— vol 1

450 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 FRANCIS CODDINGTON Dr

June

13th

To 500 Acres of Land ")
late Thos Goldsmith

on Great Ogechee 1
Neck and known by '
the Name of Greenes

275

Tract at ii/ pr Acre J

275

1782

JOHN M'LEAN

Dr

June

13th

To 250 Acres of Land')
on Great Ogechee
Neck, late Donald
Fr a z e r s adjoining [>
Lands of M™ Jackson
and Peter Lavier at

387:

10

317 pr Acre

t

Page 17. Richd Howleys
Bond for 800 £

1782

GEORGE CUBBAGE

Dr

June

13th

To 500 Acres of Land ^
on Great Ogechee
Neck late Thomas }•
Young's, called Kil-
kany at 25/ pr Acre

£ 625:

o :

o

£ 625:

o :

o

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 451
1782 PER CONTRA Cr

June

13'"

By Bond Number 17^
delivered to his honor j

the Govr in Council )>
as per Receipt 22d
August 1782

275

£ 275

1782

PER CONTRA

e

June

13th

By Bond Number 62^
delivered to his honor

the Govr in Council V
as per Receipt 27 |
Jan-1' 1783 }

387:

10

PER CONTRA

June

i3th

To Bond Number 19 de
livered to his honor

the Governor in Coun

cil as per Receipt nth
December 1 782

£ 625

£ 625

452 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 JOHN BAKER D1

June

i3th

To 900 Acres of Land ^j
on Great Ogechee j
Neck, adjoining the ,
Ship Yard Tract Brit- [
ish property at 1 2/ pr
Acre J

540

1782

RICHARD HOWLEY

Dr

June
M

13th

To 1500 Acres of Land
on Great Ogechee late
the property of Ja3 But
ler, called the White
Oak at £ 4 : i pr Acre

6075:

£ 6075

To 200 Acres of Land
late Isaac Boileau's
about 5 Miles from Sa
vannah at £ 4 pr Acre

800

£ 6875

1782

WILLIAM LECONTE

Dr

June

13th

To 1500 Acres of Land
late James Butlers
called Hickory hill at
£ 3 : 5 pr Acre

4875

£ 4875

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 453
1782 PER CONTRA Cr

June

13th

By Bond Number 59")
delivered to his honor j
the Governor in Coun- }>
cil as per Receipt |
27th Jany 1783

540

1782

PER CONTRA

CT

June

13th

By Bond Number 21 de
livered to his honor the
Governor as per Receipt
ii December 1782

By Bond Number 61 "^
delivered to his honor j
theGovernorinCoun- }-
cil per Receipt 27* j
Jan- 1783

6075

£ 6075

800

£ 6875

PER CONTRA

Cr

June

i3th

By Bond Number 7 de-^|
livered to his honor j
theGovernorinCoun- }•
cil as per Receipt 22d j
August 1782

£ 4875

£4375

SO r r— vol 1

454 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 JOSEPH DAY Dr

June

i3th

To 450 Acres late Sir"]

James Wright on [

Great Ogechee called J>

5197:

10

Orange Grove £11 :

1 1 pr Acre J

1782

JAMES GUNN

Dr

June

13th

To a House and Lot']

late Levi Sheftals, I
near Government [

385

house

1782

DOCTr WILLIAM
READ

Dr

June

13

To 200 Acres, river"]

Swamp late Sir James

Wrights on Great!
Ogechee, called Lau- [

2800

rel Hill at £14 pr

Acre

M

To a House and Lot in"]

Savannah, late the (

Estate of Phillip Del- (

580

egall's }

£ 3380

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 455
1782 PER CONTRA Cr

June

13

By Bond Number i de
livered to his honor the

Governor in Council as

per Receipt 27th Jany
1783

£5197 :

10

1782

PER CONTRA

cr

June

13

To Bond Number n"")
delivered to his hon

or the Governor in 1
Council as per Re- [
ceipt 22d August
1782

385

£ 385

1782

PER CONTRA

c

June

*3

By Bond Number 19^
delivered to his hon- j

or the Governor in V
Council as per Re- j
ceipt 27th Jan7 1783 J

338°

£ 3380

456 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 JOHN JENKENS Dr

June

13"

To 500 Acres of Land"!
on Great Ogechee |
and Canauchee late 1
Sir James Wrights f
called the white house
at £ 5 : 6/ pr A

2650

£ 2650

1782

PHILLIP LOWE

Dr

June

13"

To 250 Acres of Land^j
late Doctor Irvines, !
formerly Roche's at j
1 1/ pr Acre

To a Lot opposite )
James Habershanis >
Esqr in Savannah )

137:
385

10

522

10

1782

WILLIAM HOUSTOUN

Dr

June

13th

To 500 Acres, late^|
George Houstons on !
Great Ogechee at 307 [
pr Acre J

750

£ 750

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 457
1783 PER CONTRA Cr

June

i3th

To Bond Number 13^
delivered to his honor
the Governor in >
Council as per Re- |
ceipt 22d August 1 782 J

2650

£ 2650

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

June

i3th

To Bond Number 2i~]
delivered to his honor
the Governor in V
Council as per Re- |
ceipt 2 2d August T782J

522 :

10

£ 522:

10

—

1782

PER CONTRA

e

June

13"

By Bond Number 2 de-^j
livered to his honor
the Governor in Coun- j-
cil as per receipt 22d
August 1782 J

75°

£ 750

458 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 SETH JN° CUTHBERT Dr

June
M

M

13"

To 300 Acres late""!
Robert Reids on !
Skidoway Island at j
22! pr Acre

To a Wharf Lot and")
improvements f o r- 1
merly occupied by 1
Pooler and Parkin- [
son late the property j
of Grey Elliott

330
610

£ 940

1782

GEORGE THREAD-
CRAFT

Dr

June
M

13"

To 500 Acres, late^j
Samuel Douglass on !
Skidoway at £ 2 pr |
Acre . J

IOOO

£ 1000

1782

ABRAHAM JONES

Dr

June
M

13

To a house and Lot on )
the Bay in Savannah >
late Samuel Douglass )

7J5

£ 7i5

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 459
1782 PER CONTRA Cr

June

13th

By Bond Number 12^1
delivered to his honor j
the G o v e r n or in }•
Council as per Re- j
ceipt 22d August 1782 J

940

£ 940

1782

PER CONTRA

e

June

13"'

By Bond Number 22^
delivered to his honor j

the Governor in Coun- }>

1OOO

cil as per Receipt 22d |

August 1782

£ 1000

i

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

June

13

By Bond Number 30""!
delivered to his honor j

the Governor in Coun- \

7*5

cil as per Receipt 22d
August 1782

* 7i5

460 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 BENJAMIN LLOYD Dr

June
M

13th

To a lot late the prop- "j
erty of Robert Wil- >
Ham Powel )

177

M

To a Corner Lot near"|
the Court house late >
Isaac Boileau's J

To a Lot joining the \
above late I Boileaus *

215
J95

£ 587

1782

PETER HENRY
MOREL

Dr

June
M

J3

To a wharf and Lot in "}
Savannah late John >
Wands )

60

M

To 400 Acres of Land^]
late William Jones !
formerly N. Haners j
at 2T/ nr Aorp

420

£ 480

1782

BENJAMIN FISH-
BURN

Dr

June

i3lh

To a lot in Savannah, ^|
late Jn°Grahams near >
the Council House ._ J

150

£ 150

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 461
1782 PER CONTRA Cr

June

By Edward Davies &"|
Ben. Lloyd's Bond 1
delivered to his honor }•
the Govr in Council |
27th Jan-v 1783 N° 8 J

By Bond N° 9 delivered ^j
to his honor the Govr !
in Council, as per Re- j
ceipt 27 Jan-v 1783 J

177
410

•e 587

1782

PER CONTRA

cr

June

By Bond Number 58^1
delivered to his honor
the Governor in Coun- \-
cil as per Rec' n |
Decr 1782 J

480

£ 480

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

June

13th

By Bond Number 2 7 de- ^
livered to his honor j
the Governor in 1
Council as per Re- f
ceipt nth December |
1782

.,

£ 150

462 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 EDWARD JONES Dr

June

M

To a Lot in Savannah
late John Grahams

To a house and Lot, late
Alexr Creightons-

To y* Lot late John Gra
hams

121

75

712

1782

ANN STEWART

June

To a house and Lot
late Mathew Stewarts
in Savannah

610

£ 610

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 463
1782 PER CONTRA Cr

June

13th

By Bond Number 6"")
delivered tohis honor |

the Governor in Coun- {>

516

cil as per Receipt 22d |
August 1782 J

By Bond Number 57 de
livered to his honor the
Governor in Council as

196

per Rec1 n Decr 1782

—

£ 712

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

June

J3

By Bond Number 25 "1

delivered to his honor !
the Governor as per [

£ 610

Receipt u Decr 1782 j

£ 610

464 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 JOHN MARTIN Dr

June
M

13th

To 6032 Acres, late Jn°^|
Grahams on Angus- |
tins Creek called }>
Monteaih (m iS/6 pr
A. J

1
5579:

12

£ 5579

12

1782

THOMAS MILLS

Dr

•

June
M

i3'h

To Long Island in""]
Skidoway Narrows I
late the property of [
Phillip Moore

236

£ 236

—

1782

RAYMOND DEMERE

Dr

June

13th

To 500 Acres, late^j
David Johnstone on 'v
White bluff at 157 pr f
Acre )

To a house and half lot^j
on the Bay in Savan- j
nah in possession of J>
Tho8 Mills British j
property J

375
525

£ 900

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. .465
1782 PER CONTRA Cr

June

13th

By Bond Number i de
livered to his honor the

Governor as per Rec'
9th April 1 783

5579 =

12

£ 5579 :

12

i

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

June

13th

By Bond Number 8 de
livered to his honor the

Governor in Council as

per Receipt 22d Au
gust 1782

236

£ 236

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

June

i3th

By Bond Number 14 de
livered to his honor the

Governor in Council as

per Receipt IIth Decr
1782

900

£ 900

466 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 BENJ" ANDREW SENr Dr

June

M

i Vh

To half a Lot and house
late Hendersons

350

\£ 350

1782

ANDREW MCLEAN

Dr

June
M

13th

To 500 Acres, late Sam
uel Douglass on Savan
nah River called the
Retreat, purchased by
Dennis Burke and
transferd to Mr M°Lean
£ 6 : 6 pr A

£ 3I5°

1782

WILLIAM MCINTOSH

D-

June
M

M

1783
Jan7

th

3d

To a house and lot late')
Levi Sheftals on the 1
Common near Jn° j
Richards )

To a house and halH
lot late Tho' Flem- 1
ings in Broughton j
Street

To 300 Acres on White
Marsh British property
N° 2 at £ 4 : 5 per Acre

400
200

£ 600

1275

£ 1875

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 467
1782 PER CONTRA Cr

June

13th

By bond Number 23 ^|
delivered to his hon
or the Governor, in 1
Council as per Re
ceipt 22d August
1782 j

35°

^ 350

-.

1782

PER CONTRA

0

June

13th

By Bond Number 63 de
livered to his honor the
Governor in Council as
per Receipt nth Decem
ber 1782

3!5°

£ 3150

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

June

1783
Jany

13"
3d

By Bond Number 41 de
livered to his honor the
Governor in Council as
per Receipt i Ith Decem
ber 1782

By Bond Number 58 de- ^
livered to his honor |
the Governor i n J>
Council as per Re- |
ceipt 27th Jan-v 1783 )

600

£ 600

I275

£ 1875

468 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 ELIJAH CLARK Dr

June

13th

To a house and half lot

in Savannah late James

Alexander

IOO

CHARLES ODING-

Dr

SELLS

±J

June

13th

To 400 Acres on Skid-"")

oway Island late the !

Estate P. Delegalls f

£ 700

M

at 367 pr Acre J

S

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 469
PER CONTRA Cr

June

13th

By Bond Number 78 de

livered to his honor the
Govr in Council as per

£ 100

Receipt 27* Jan-y 1783

PER CONTRA

Cr

June

13

By Bond Number 3 de-^

livered to his honor |

the Govr in Council }•

£ 720

as'per Receipt 27 Jany

1733

31 r r-vol 1

470 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 ROBERT HOLM'S D1

Octobr

21st

To 500 Acres, late"|
John Hume, on the i .
Newington Road at j
367 pr Acre

900

£ 900

1782

JAMES FIELDS

Dr

Octob1

2 1"

To 500 Acres, late James
Hume's on the New
ington Road £3 : 127
p'A.

1800

£ 1800

M

To 300 Acres on G.~]
Ogechee late Jn° But- |
ler Maxwells known }•
by Cherry hill at £20 |
per Acre J

6000

£ 7800

1782

FRANCIS LEWIS

Dr

Octobr

2 Ist

To 500 Acres, late Wil-^j
Ham Jones of Savan- |
nah, on Great Oge- }>
chee adjoining M" j
Reids at 25/ pr A.

625:

£ 625

SALES OF COXFISCATED ESTATES. 471
1782 PER CONTRA Cr

June

13th

By Bond Number 59 de
livered to his honor the

Governor in Council as

per Receipt nth De
cember 1782

900

£ 900

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

Octobr

21"

By Bond Number to de
livered to his honor the
Governor in Council as
per Receipt i Ith De
cember 1782

By bond Number 12 de
livered to his honor the
Governor in Council as
per Receipt 27th Jan7
1783

1800

£ 1800
6000

£ 7800

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

Octobr

21"

By Bond Number 61 de
livered to his honor the
Governor in Council as
per Receipt n Decem
ber 1783

625

£ 625

472 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 FREDERICK SHICK Dr

Octob1

21st

To a lot joining Clark ^
the Taylors opposite |
the Government }•

house late John Gra- j
hams J

£ 260

£ 260

1782

PATRICK WALSH

Dr

Octobr

21st

To a house & half Lot^
in Broughton Street ^
opposite Clarendons (
late Sam1 Douglass J

1

700

To a house and half^l

Lot adjoining the I
above late Sam1 [

437

Douglass J

To a house and 'ot in^
possession Widow 1
Loyer British prop- [
erty .

961

£ 2098

1782

JN° PETER WAGNON

Dr

Octobr

2 1"

To ^3 of a Lot and^i

M

Wharf with Stores 1
late Inglis and Jen- |
kens J

2050

£ 2050

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 473
1782 PER CONTRA Cr

Octobr

21st

By Bond Number 51 de
livered to his honor the

Governor in Council as

per Receipt 2/th Jan
uary 1783

260

£ 260

1782

PER CONTRA

e

Octobr

„-

By Bond Number 38 de
livered to his honor the

•

Governor in Council

i*37

By Bond Number 62 de
livered to his honor the

Governor in Council as

per Receipt i Ith Decem
ber 1782

961

£ 2098

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

Octobr

2I8t

By Bond Number 52 de
livered to his honor the

Governor in Council as

per Receipt u Decem
ber 1782

2050

£ 2050

474 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 NEHEMIAH WADE Dr

July

2d

To a house and Lot in^l
Savannah on the Bay 1
"late Rob4. McCor- f
micks

1245

£ 1245

1783

EDWARD LLOYD

Dr

Jany

3d

To a house and lot in ^
Broughton Street V
late Cornicks J

'35°

—

£ 1350

1783

JOHN HOWEL

D<

Jany

3d

To 300 Acres on Great ^j
Ogechee late Sir
James Wright's!
known by Sage Field |
plantation at £ 13 :8
per Acre J

£ 4020

£ 4020

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 475
1782 PER CONTRA Cr

July

2d

By Bond Number 3 de
livered to his honor the
Governor in Council as
per Receipt 22d August
1782

1245

£ 1245

^783

PER CONTRA

e

Jany

3d

By Bond Number 4 de
livered to his honor the
Governor in Council as
per Receipt 2 7th Jan-v
1783

1350

—

£ 1350

1783

PER CONTRA

cr

Jan-T

3d

By Bond Number 5 de
livered to his honor the
Governor in Council as
per Receipt 27 Jan-v

1783

£ 4020

£ 4020

476 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

ROBERT GRIER Dr

Jany

3d

To 500 Acres on White"")
Marsh Island where !
Rogers lived N° I at [
£4 : 2 per Acre J

£ 2050

£ 2050

MORDECAI SHEFT-
ALL

Dr

Jan-v

3d

To 150 Acres of Land^i
late Alexr Wylly near i
Joseph Clays Esqr at [
6/6 per Acre J

£ 48

15

£ 48

15

JOSEPH FOX

Dr

—

Jan-v

3d

To 150 Acres on Skid-""]
oway Island late Doc
tor William J o h n \-
Young at £4:5 per
Acre

£ 637:

10

£ 637

IO

—

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 477
PER CONTRA Cr

Jan-v

3d

By Bond Number 88 de-^j
livered to his honor |
the Governor in Coun- (>
cil as per Receipt 27
January 1783

2050

£ 2050

PER CONTRA

Cr

Jan-v

3d

By Bond Number 2 2 de- "")
livered to his honor j
the Governor in Coun- [>
cil as per Receipt 27th |
Jany 1783

£ 48:

15

£ 48

15

—

PER CONTRA

Cr

Jany

3d

By Bond Number 49 de- "")
livered to his honor |
the Govr in Council >
as per Rec1 27th Jan7 |
1783

£ 637:

10

£ 637

10

478 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 JAMES STALLINS Dr

June

J3

To 5 Small Negroes )
late Lachlan McGil- I
livrays )

£ 103

£ 103

1782

JOHN MORRISON

Dr

June

i3lh

To a family of Negroes
Fellow, Wench and
Child late Lachlan
McGillivrays

£ 290
£ 290

1782

LEMUEL LANIER

Dr

June

13th

To 2 Negroes a fellow,
and Wench late Lach
lan McGillivrays

£ 200

IO

-

£200

10

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 479
1782 PER CONTRA Cr

June

13th

By bond Number 71 de
livered to his honor the
Governor in Council as
per Receipt 27 Jany
1783

£ 103

£ 103

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

June

I3

By Bond Number 73 de
livered to his honor the
Govr as per Receipt 27th
Jany 1783

331

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

[

June

13*

By Bond 74 delivered to
his honor the Governor
in Council as per Rec1
27 Jany 1783

£ 200 :

10

£ 200

10

480 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

BENJAMIN STILES

500 Acres land on G.
Ogechee Neck late
Cox and Hughes join- [
ing lands of Stiles [
and M™ Baudies at |
7/ per Acre

175

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 481

Sales of Confiscated Estates, held at the White Oak
plantation, late James Butlers on Great Ogechee, on
Wednesday the 19'" June 1782, for the county of Liberty

- Commissioners Present

John Baker Thomas Washington

Charles Odingsells John McLean

Abraham Ravott Hugh Lawson

Caleb Hovvel James Martin

Josiah Powel Peter Paris

482

REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782

JANNET MCKAY

Dr

June

19th

To 200 Acres of Land ~|

late Daniel B. Mcln- V
tosh at i8/ per Acre j

1 80

To 500 Acres late "}

Charles M°Donalds at V

5^5

£1.1 per Acre j

£ 705

1782

RICHARD HOWLEY

D'

June

19th

To 200 Acres late Jn° '^

Glenns near Sunbu- >

670

M

ry at £3 17 per Acre J

M

To a House and Lot in

Sunbury N° 9

816

£ 1486

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 483

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

June

19

By Bond Number 34. ^
delivered to his hon
or the Governor as *>
per Receipt nth De- j
ceinber 1782

7°5

^ 7°5

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

June

19th

By Bond Number 64^
delivered to his hon
or the Governor in 1
Council as per Re- j
ceipt 27th January

17*3

1486

£ 1486

484

REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782

BENJAMIN ANDREW Dr

June

19*

To 500 Acres late Doc-^)
tor Lewis Johnstons I

M

near Sunbury at io/ (
per Acre J

250

To 500 Acres late^j

Thomas Youngs on !

the Colonels Island [

1 J75

at47/Pr A.

To 500 Acres late Thos>|

Youngs on the Colo- j

nels Island known bv *>

212

10

half Moon bluff at |

8/6 per Acre J

To a Lot in Sunbury N°i3

575

To D° D° N°i4

575

M

To 400 Acres on the"^

Octobr

21st

Colonels Island j

know by Butterfields v
point late Tho8 (

1460

Youngs at £3 : 13 per

Acre J

£ 4247 :

10

1782

JOHN COWPER

Dr

June

19

To 1300 Acres of Land"|

near the Public land- I

ing late Roger Kel- \

4615

sail at £ 3 : 1 1 per |

Acre J

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 485
1782 PER CONTRA Cr

June

19th

By Bond Number 41 de- ^|
livered to his honor I
the Govr as per Rec* [

23'' August 1782 )

2787:

10

Octr

21st

By Bond Number 87 de- ")
livered to his honor j

the Govr in Council \
as per Rec* 27* Janu- j
ary 1783

1460

NB. the 500 acres op- "")
posite @ 47/ relinqd 1
The two Lotts, propy f
of Mr Fisher— J

£ 4247

10

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

June

19th

By Bond Number 32 de- ""j
livered to his honor |

the Govr in Council }>
as per Receipt nth j
Decr 1782

4615

32 r r=vol 1

486 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 JOHN DOLLAR Dr

June

19th

To 150 Acres near'")
Newport Ferry late !
William Dawson at |
13/6 per Acre

To a Lot in Sunbury
N° 361 -

101 :
32:

5
o

£ *33

5

1782

JOSEPH OSWELL

Dr

June

19th

To 500 Acres late^j
Thomas Youngs !
above Newport Ferry [
at £ i : 5 per Acre J

625

£ 625

—

1782

STEPHEN HAU-
THORN

Dr

June

i9th

To 150 Acres late"!
Tho8 Youngs known 1
by Burnets old Field |
at 47 per Acre

30

£ 30

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 487
1782 PER CONTRA Cr

June

19th

By Bond Number 33 as^
per Rec' from his >
Honor the Governor J

J33:

5

£ 133

5

1782

PER CONTRA

C'

June

19th

By Bond Number 44^
delivered to his honor |
the Governor as per \-
Receipt 27* January |
1733

625

£ 625

1782

PER CONTRA

C'

June

19th

By Bond Number 35 ^
delivered to his Honor !
the Govr as per Re- j
ceipt nth Decr 1782 J

30

£ 30

488 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 PHILLIP LOW D'

June

^9

To one Lot in Sunbury
N° 11.

355

M

To 300 Acres late Wil-^
liamsons a British !
Subject at £ i : 15 per [
Acre

525

To 250 Acres late DaO
vid Delegals at £3 : 5 >
per Acre J

8ia:

IO

£ 1692 :

IO

1782

SAMUEL WEST

D'

June

19th

To 500 Acres late Grey "^
Elliotts joining New- 1
port ferry at £3 : 9 [
per Acre J

,,

To i Lot in Sunbury N°3 7

240

To i D° D° N° 2

410

To i D° D° N°i3o

IOO

To i D° D° N°2oo

105

To i D° D° N°20i

IOO

To i D° D° N°202

IOO

To i D° D° N°203

105

T*~ , T\O T\O TVTO _

1 o I D D N 204

105

To i D° D° N°267

IOO

To i D° D° N°a68

105

*3'95

SALES OF COXFISCATED ESTATES. 489
1782 PER CONTRA Cr

June

i9lh

By Bond Number 39^
delivered to his honor !
the Governor as per f
Rec* 27th Jany 1783 J

1692 :

10

£ 1692 :

10

1782

PER CONTRA

C'

June

19*

By Bond Number 38^
delivered to his honor 1
the Govr as per Re- [
ceipt 23d August 1782 J

3195

£ 3195

490 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.
1782 ROGER SANDERS D'

June

19

To 3000 Acres late^j
Rob1 Bailie in several I
Tracts at £4: n per [
Acre.

i3650

£ 13,650

1782

ROBERT ADAMS

Dr

June

19th

To 150 Acres late"")
James Butlers on Ca- !
nauchie at 4/ per f
Acre J

To 250 Acres late"]
Roger Kelsall's fork i
Canauchie at 147 per j
Acre

30
175

£ 205

1782

THOMAS CATER

D?

June

19th

To 250 Acres late^)
Roger Kelsalls o n
Tom's Creek near V
Canauchie at n/ per j
Acre J

To 150 Acres late"!
Roger Kelsall on 1
Canauchie at 4/ per J
Acre

137:
30

10

£ 167

10

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 491
1782 PER CONTRA Cr

June

19th

By Bond Number 42 ^1
delivered to his honor !
the Governor as per f
Rec' 23d August 1782 j

i3>65°

£ 13,650

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

June

19th

By Bond Number 48^1
delivered to his hon- |
or the Governor as J>
per Rec1 27th Jany
1783 }

205

£ 205

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

June

19th

By Bond Number 36 1
delivered to his honor 1
the Govr as per Rec* f
nth December 1782 }

167:

10

£ 167

10

492 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 JOHN HARDY Dr

June
M

i9th

To 150 Acres late^j
Thomas Gold smith >
at £ 2 : 15 per Acre J

412 :

10

M

To i Lot in Sunbury N°
23 late Simon Munroe

395

£ 807

10

_

1782

ROBERT GRIER

Dr

June

i9th

To one Lot in Sunburv

N° 16

5,o

—

£ 510

1782

JOHN BAKER

Dr

June

19

To a Lot in Sunbury N°

M

22 Simon Monroe

4-50

M

To y^ of 500 Acres ""j
late Roger Kelsalls
known by the distil- \
lery near Sunbury at
£ 2 per Acre j

333:

6:

8

M

1

To y± of 500 Acres )
late Roger Kelsalls \
at £ 2 : 6 per Acre J

382:

II

4
o

£ 1165

18

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 493
1782 PER CONTRA Cr

June

19th

By Bond Number 29^
delivered to his honor 1
the Governor as per ^
Receipt 23d August |
1782 J

807 :

10

£ 807

IO

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

June

19th

By Bond Number 46 "")
delivered to his honor
the Governor as per >
Receipt 27th January
1783

5Jo

£ 510

_

1782

PER CONTRA

e

June

19th

By Bond Number 13^
delivered to his honor I
the Governor as per f
Receipt 27 Jan7 1783 J

1165

16

£ 1165

16

494 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 JOHN JENKINS Dr

June

19

To a Lot in Sunbury N° 38
To a D° D° N° 93

165
140

£ 305

1782

THOMAS BAILLEY

Dr

June

19th

To a Lot in Sunbury N°
281

75

£ 75

1782

JAMES FIELDS

Dr

June

19th

To i Lot in Sunbury N°
282

31

* 3i

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 495
1782 PER CONTRA Cr

June

19th

By Bond Number 37
delivered to his honor
the Governor as per
Rec1 23d August 1 782

3°5

^ 305

—

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

June

*9

By Bond Number 31^
delivered to his honor 1
the Govr as per Rec* [
IIth December 1782 }

75

* 75

1782

PER CONTRA

C

June

I9

By Bond Number 36^1
delivered to his honor 1
the Govr as per Re- f
ceipt 2 3d August 1 782 J

3i

£ 3i

496 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 WILLIAM HOUSTOUN Dr

June

19th

To 2500 Acres late Sir
Patrick Houstouns on
Cat head Creek at the
Altamaha at £ 10 per
Acre

£ 25,000

£ 25,000

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 497
1782 PER CONTRA Cr

June

19th

Bond Number 40 deO

livered to his honor 1
the Govr as per Re- f

25,000

ceipt 23d August 1782 j

£ 25,000

498 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.
HIPWORTH CARTER

100 Acres late James
Westley at 19/6 per
Acre

97

10

Liberty County Sales commenced at Savannah 21"
October 1782

1782

THOMAS WHITE

Dr

Octobr

21st

To 300 Acres late^
Thomas Youngs pine
Land known by New
port Ferry at £ i : 10
10 per Acre

-

45°

* 450

1782

JAMES JEFFRIES

Dr

Octobr

21st

To 250 Acres late Wil- N
liamson's, a British
Subject, joining
Major Low's at 157
per Acre

>

187:

10

£ 187:

10

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 499
PER CONTRA

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

Octobr

21st

By Bond Number 37 de
livered to his honor the
Govr as per Rec1 27*
Jan>- 1783

45°

£ 450

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

Octobr

2 Ist

By Bond Number 43
delivered to his honor
the Governor, as per
Rec' 27th Jany 1783

187:

10

£ 187:

10

500 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 FREDERICK RIDGLEY Dr

Octr

2Jst

To 800 Acres late Grey "}
Elliotts in the des- >
erts at 21/6 per Acre)

860

—

1782

WILLIAM M'lNTOSH
Junr

Dr

Octr

2 Ist

To 600 Acres late Thoe")
Youngs on Lewis Is- !
land Altamaha at £2 : [
a per Acre )

1260

£ 1260

1782

JOHN MCINTOSH

Dr

Octr

21"

To 500 Acres on Bull^j
Town Swamp Brit- 1
ish property at 267 per [
Acre j

650

£ 650

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 501
1782 PER CONTRA Cr

Octr

21"

By Bond Number 64^
delivered to his honor !
the Govr as per Rec' f
i Ith December 1782 J

860

—

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

Octr

2In

By Bond Number 42 ")
delivered to his honor !
the Govr as per Receit f
the 27 Jan-v 1783 J

1260

£ 1260

1782

PER CONTRA

e

Oct'

21st

By Bond Number 18^)
delivered to his honor I
the Governor, as per j
Rec1 27th Jan-v 1783 J

650

£ 650

33 r r— vol 1

502 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

ROBERT SALLENS D

Decr

3°th

To i Brown Bay Horse ^)

late Alexanders

21 :

8

Creightons j

To 6 head of Cattle at

'£3 : i per head

18:

6

*>. 39:

14

1783

JOSIAH POWEL

Dr

Jany

3d

To 1000. Acres Land

Late the property of

Stead a Brittish Subject

@ 477 p. A.

& 2350

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 503
PER CONTRA C'

Decr

30th

By Bond number 15^1
delivered to his hon- 1
or the Governor as f
per Rec' 27 Jan7 1783 J

£ 39'

14

39-

H

By Bond N° 70 Delivered
to his honnor the Govr
Dated the 3dof Jan7 1783

£ 2350

504

REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

At a Board of Commissioners held at the Town of
Ebenezer, for the Sales of Confiscated Estates in the
County of Effingham on Tuesday the 2d July 1783

Commissioners Present

John Baker
Josiah Powel
John McLean
Daniel Coleman
Thomas Washington

Elijah Clarke
James Martin
Peter Paris
Thomas Lewis
Charles Odingsells

1782

JOHN LUCAS

D.

July
Mor

2d

To 500 Acres land late "j
Christopher Freder- V
ick Triebners at 2/6 J

62:

10

£ 62:

10

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 505

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

July

2d

By Bond Number 46^
delivered to his honor 1
the Governor as per j

62:

10

Rec1 23d August 1782 j

£ 62:

10

506 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 CHARLES ODINGSELLS Dr

July

2da

To 50 Acres late Chrisr^
F. Triebners, a mill 1
seat, near Ebenezer [
at 5/ per Acre J

12 :

10

To i oo Acres late John "j
Goldwire were he re- V
sided, at 147 per Acre)

70:

o

To 100 Acres late John
Goldwires at 2/ per Acre

10

To 300 Acres late Abra-'j
ham Minceys on Oge- >
chee at 147 per A. J

2IO

Octr

21st

200 Acres late William ^

Powels on s° side Oge- >
chee at 10/6 )

105

£ 407

IO

1782

LEWIS COPE

Dr

July

2d

To 62 Acres in EbeneO
zer late Chrisr F. 1
Triebners at £ 2 : 2 \

130:

4

p. A.

To 150 Acres late }
George Weekleys at V
i/6 per Acre )

ii :

5

To 200 Acres late Jn0>)
J. Zublys about two !
miles from Savannah j
at 8/6 per Acre J

85

£ 226

9

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 507
1782 PER CONTRA Cr

July

2d

By Bond Number 68^1
delivered to his honor j

the Govr in Council >

12 :

10

as per Rec' 27* Jan-v |
1783

By Bond Number 23 ]
delivered to his honor •
the Govr as per Rec' f
27 Jany 1783

80

By Bond Number 67"")
delivered to his honor ,
the Govr as per Rec* '
27 Jany 1783

2IO

Octr

21st

By Bond Number 65 ~")
delivered to his honor !
the Govr as per Rec* j

27 Jany 1783

105

£ 407

IO

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

July

2d

By Bond Number 25 "1
delivered to his honor 1
the Govr as per Rec1 f

27 Jan-r 1783

226

9

£ 226

9

508 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 ELIJAH CLARKE Dr

July

2d

To 100 Acres late }
Joshua Pierce at 1 5/6 V
per Acre )

77:

10

£ 77:

IO

•

1782

FREDERICK REHM

Dr

July

2d

To 400 Acres late Jo-^|
seph Johnston S° side 1
Ogechee at 157 per [
Acre J

300

£ 300

1782

JAMES HABERSHAM

Dr

July

2d

To 250 Acres late Jn°
Grubers at 8/ per Acre

TOO

M

To 1000 Acres late^

James Harriotts at 4/ >
per Acre J

2OO

M

To 1500 Acres late )
Tho8 Flemmings at >
14/6 per Acre )

1087 :

IO

£ 1387

10

. SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 509
1782 PER CONTRA Cr

July

2d

By Bond Number 78^
delivered to his honor 1
the Governor as per f
Rec1 27 January 1 783 j

77 '•

10

£ 77:

10

_

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

July

2d

By Bond Number 10^
delivered his honor |
the Governor, as per }•
his Receipt 9th April j

1783

300

£ 300

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

July

2d

By Bond Number 44^1
delivered to his honor 1
the Govr as per Rec1 [
23d August 1782

1387:

IO

£ 1387:

IO

510 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 GASPER GRINER Dr

July

2d

To 150 Acres late^

James Harriott at 9/ V

67:

10

per Acre j

£ 67

10

1782

CALEB HOWEL

Dr

July

2d

To 100 Acres late Phil- ^

lip Dills at I5/ per >

75

Acre )

Octr

21st

To 100 Acres late Phil- "]

lip Dills at 8/ per V
Acre J

40

Decr

2d

To a Blacksmith Bel- 1

lows and Anvil late >

25 :

10

P. Dills )

£ 140

IO

1782

JAMES RYAN

Dr

July

2d

To 50 Acres late James

Harriotts an Island in

Savannah River at 97

per Acre

22

IO

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 511
1782 PER CONTRA O

July

2d

By Bond 26 N° delivered
to his honor the Govr

as per Rec1 27 Jany
'783

67:

10

—

£ 67

10

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

July

2d

By Bond Number 85
delivered to his honor

the Govr as per Rec'
27 Jan-v 1783

75

Octr

21st

By Bond Number 86^
delivered to his honor !
the Govr as per Rec' [
27 Jan-T 1783

40

Decr

2d

By Bond Number 84 de
livered to his honor the

Govr as per Rec1 27
Jany 1783

25:

IO

—

£ 140 10

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

July

2d

By Bond Number 45 de
livered to his honor the

Governor as per Receipt
23d August 1782

22 :

10

512 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 DAVID HARRIS Dr

July

2d

To 150 Acres late Phil- ^
lip Dills at 2/ per V
Acre j

15

£ 15

1782

JOSEPH CLAY

Dr

July

2d

To 500 Acres on Oge-^
chee late John Gra- V
hams at 6/ per Acre J

To 500 Acres joining the
above late Jn° Grahams
at 6/ per Acre

150

150

£ 300

1782

JOSEPH WOODRUFF

Dr

July

2d

To 500 Acres on Oge-~|
chee late Henry Mon- V
roe at 5/6 per Acre J

137:

10

£ 137

10

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 513
1782 PER CONTRA Cr

July

2a

By Bond Number 27 "")
delivered to his honor I
the Govr as per Rect [
27janM783 J

15

£ 15

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

July

2d

By Bond Number n^|
delivered to his honor [
the Govr as per Rec1 [
ii Decr 1782 J

300

£ 300

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

July

2d

By Bond Number 8 de-~]
livered to his honor
the Governor, as per J>
Receipt 9* April
1783

i37

10

& i37

10

514 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 WILLIAM OBRYEN Dr

July

2d

To 3 50 Acres 1 a t e "|
Chrisr Fredk Trieb- V
ners at 14; per Acre )

To 600 Acres late Jn0>|
J. Zublys near Mid- 1
dlesex ferry at 367 pr f
Acre J

245
1080

£ 1325

1782

THEOPHILUS LUN-
DAY

D'

July

2d

To 250 Acres land, late ~|
Phillip Dills Senr at V
3/ pr Acre )

To 75 Acres late Phillip
Dills at 2/ per Acre

37 =
?:

10

10

RICHARD WYLLY

6 head Cattle late Christ'
F. Triebner at £ 5 : i
per head

3°

6

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 515
1782 PER CONTRA Cr

July

2d

By Bond Number 43 de
livered to his honor the
Govr as per Rec1 23
Aug1 1782 _ _

i325

£ *325

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

July

2d

By Bond

PER CONTRA

616

REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

Effingham County Sales commenced at Savannah 21'
October 1783

1782 JOHN LECRAFT Dr

Octr

21"

To 150 Acres, late^j

George Weekleys on 1
Great Ogechee at 6/6 f

48:

J5

per Acre _

£ 48: 15

•

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 517

1782 PER CONTRA Cr

Octr

21st

By Bond Number 9")

delivered to his honor j

the Governor as per }>

48:

15

•

Receipt 9th April)

1/83

£ 48:

15

—

?4 r i - vol 1

518 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 JOHN LOVE Dr

Octob1

2ist

To 1000 Acres, late )
Peter Blythe at 7/6 I
per Acre )

375

£ 375

1782

LUKE MANN

Dr

Octob1

2ist

To 300 Acres, late }
Greenwood and Hig- >
ginsonat 157 per Acre ;

225

£ 225

1782

ABRAHAM RAVOT

Dr

OctoV

M
Dec

21st
2

To 30 Acres, late Phillip
Dills at 287 per Acre

To 5 head of Sheep late
Phillip Dills at 52/ per
head

42:

To 7 head of hogs late
Jn° Nappers

i

To 9 D° D° late Theos
Triplets

i

Jan-v
1783

2d

M

To 375 Acres late^j
James Pace's at £i : >
13 per Acre J

618:

%

£ 675: 15

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 519
1782 PER CONTRA Cr

Octobr

21st

By Bond Number 19"^
delivered to his hon- |
or the Governor as )>
per Rec' 2 7th Jan7 |
1783 J

375

^ 375

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

Octobr

21st

By Bond Number 70 ")
delivered to his honor !
the Govr as per Rec* j
IIth Decr 1782

225

£ 225

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

Octobr
Decr

JanT
1783

2I8t

2d

3d

By Bond Number 82^1
delivered to his hon- [
or the Governor as j
per Rec1 Jan-T 27 1783 J

By bond Number 4^1
delivered to his hon- |
or the Governor as }>
per Rec' 9'" April j
1783

By Bond Number 27"!
delivered to his hon
or the Governor as }•
per Rec' 9th April |
1783 J

42
15
618:

15

£ 675:

15

520 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 JAMES THOMPSON Dr

Octob'
M

21"

To 2500 Acres, late*}
John Mullrynes at >
6/6 per Acre J

812

10

£ 812

10

1782

CHRISTOPHER HIL
LARY

Dr

Octobr
M

2I6t

To 200 Acres, late Thos>)
Flemmings on G. 1
Ogechee at 4/6 per [
Acre

45

£ 45

1782

FRANCIS TENNEL

Dr

Octobr
M

21st

To 150 Acres, late^)
Thomas Flemmings 1
on Great Ogechee at f
I2/ per Acre j

90

£ 90

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 521
1782 PER CONTRA Cr

OctoV

21st

By Bond Number 54 de- ~]
livered to his honor 1
the Govr as per Rec1 f
27 Jany 1783

812:

10

£ 812

10

1782

PER CONTRA

e

Octobr

21st

By Bond Number 72 de-")
livered to his honor (
the Govr as per Rec' {
nth Decr 1782 }

45

£ 45

—

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

Octobr

2I9t

J3y Bond Number 24de-^)
livered to his honor 1
the Govr as per Rec1 [
27th Jan? 1783

90

£ 90

522 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 ELIZABETH CRONELBURGH Dr

Octr

21st

To 100 Acres, late^j
Jonathan Bancher, a (
British Soldier at £ 2 f
per Acre J

200

1782

STEPHEN JOHNSTON

Dr

Decr

2d

To 5 head of Cattle, late
William Coopers

To 8 head cattle late
Henry Coopers

To 2 head Cattle, late
Sam1 Cowper's

9:

57:

2

i

10

£ 68

ii

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 523
1782 PER CONTRA Cr

Octr

21st

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

!

Decr

2d

By Bond Number 89^
delivered to his honor 1
the Governor as per f
Rec' 27 Jan-T 1783

68:

•
ii

£ 68:

ii

524

REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

Sales of Confiscated Estates, held at John Thomas,
plantation, for Burke County, 2d September 1782.

Commissioners Present

Thomas Lewis, Hugh Lawson

Elijah Clarke, Caleb Howel

Daniel Coleinan, Abraham Ravot

James Martin, John Mc Lean

Charles Odingsells
Purchasers Names

1782 WILLIAM MCINTOSH JUNr

Dr

Septr
M

M

Jany
M

eptr

To 600 Acres late John ^
Thomas, where he re- >
sided at £2 per Acre )

To 100 Acres late^j
Robert Millers join
ing the above Tract [
at 267 per Acre

To 200 Acres late~"j
George Kingcades on '
Savannah River at
£4 : 3 per Acre

To 1000 Acres late^)
Robert Hendersons j
on Boggy gut and Sa
vannah River at 3/6
p'A.

To i Desk, i Table, i ")
bed Stead, i Grind
Stone i pair Hand V
Mill Stones late Jn° [
Thomas's J

To 450 Acres late RusO
sells near Bryar Creek >
at £2 : 7 per Acre J

1 200

130

830

175

21

£ 2556

I057

10

10

10

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 525

1782

PER CONTRA

Septr

Sept

Septr

delivered to his hon
or the Govr as per

Rec' Decr 1782

I

By Bond Number 56^1
delivered to his honor I
the Governor as per j
Receipt 27 Jan- 1783 j

By Bond Number 29 ""j jj
delivered to his hon- I
or the Governor, as f
per Rec1 n Decr 1782 J

By Bond Number 63^1
delivered to his hon- I
or the Govr as per [
Rec' 27 Jan-T 1783

Bv Bond Number 30^)

->n-

2l6o

175

21

1057

10

IO

526 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 REYMOND DEMERIE Dr

Sep1

2d

To 1000 Acres late^j
Lac hi an McGilli-

vray's opposite Math- •
ew's Bluff on Savan- [

4050

1783
Jan?

3d

nah River at £ 4 : i
pr Acre

To 500 Acres late John"]
Jameison joining i
lands Stephen Smiths '
at £3:17 p. A J

1925

To 420 Acres late HenO
ry Sharps, on Savan- |
nah River known by ^
the Redhouse at <£ 4 : |
5 per Acre

1785

M

To 700 Acres late Jn° )
Jameisons Pine land >
at i/ per Acre )

35

1782

JAMES STALLINGS

Dr

Seplr

2d

To 750 Acres late Da-^j
vid R n s s e 1 1 s on 1
Rocky comfort at 97 f
pr Acre

3=37

10

To 200 Acres late"")
James Robertsons in
Queensboro Town-[>
ship on dry Creek at j
6/6 per Acre

65

To 150 Acres late^
Thomas Betty in !
Queensboro Town- j
ship at 5/5 p. A.

37:

10

To 20 head Cattle late ^)

Gilbert Fyfe branded V
G. F j

270

£ 710

oo

SALES OF COXFISCATED ESTATES. 527
1782 PER CONTRA Cr

Septr

2d

By bond Number 26"")
delivered to his hon- |

or the Governor, as }•
per Receipt i Ith De- |
cember 1782

4050

By Bond N° 34 delivO
ered to his honor the I
Governor, as per Re- ]
ceipt 27* Jany 1783 )

3645

3d JanJ
1/83

By Bond and Mortgage
delivered Seth John
Cuthbert as ^ Receit

£ 35

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

Septr

2d

By Bond Number 46 de
livered to his honor the

Governor as per Re
ceipt nth Decr 1782

440

By Bond Number 76^
delivered to his honor

the Governor as per >
Receit the 27th Jan-T |

1783

270

£ 710

528 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 THOMAS GLASCOCK Dr

Septr

2a

To 400 Acres late John }
Robinson's on Bryer >
Creek at i2/ per Acre )

240

To 400 Acres late PeO
ter Blythe's on i
Rockey Creek at £ i : j
ii per Acre j

620

1782

JAMES HAWKINS

Dr

Septr

2d

To 500 Acres, late^l
Daniel Howels, on !
Rockey Creek at £ i : j
12 per Acre

800

1782

FREDERICK ROLFS

Dr

Septr

2d

To 150 Acres late""!
James Herberts were !
he kept Tavern at [
I3/ per Acre

97:

10

Jan-v

3d

To 400 Acres late James
Herberts at 6/ per Acre

I2O

£ 217 :

10

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 529
1782 PER CONTRA Cr

Septr

2d

By Bond Number 42 ^
delivered to his hon- 1
or the Governor, as j
per Receipt nth De
cember 1782

560

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

Septr

2*

By Bond Number 48^
delivered to his hon

or the Governor, as )>
per Receipt IIth De
cember 1782

840

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

Septr

2d

By Bond Number 8o~]
delivered to his honor 1
the Governor as per
Receipt 27 Jan7 1783}

97 :

10

By Bond Number 79 de
livered to his honor the

Governor as per Receipt
27th Jan7 1783

120

-

£ 217

IO

630 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 JAMES HABERSHAM Dr

Sept/

M

M

M

To 300 Acres,late James
Herberts on Savan
nah River claim'd by
Wm Gibbons at 287 |
per Acre J

To 300 Acres late Pe
ter Blythe on Savan-
nan River at £ 3 : i r
per Acre.

To 1000 Acres late^j
Alexander Wylly 'son
Ogechee at 4/6 per ,'
Acre )

To 1000 Acres, late Jo-"")
s i a h Taatnels on!
Rocky Creek at i/ per {
Acre }

420

9*5

225 \

£ 1190

1782

JAMES MCKAY

Dr

Septr

2d

To 300 Acres late Rob-^
ert Henderson's on !
Savannah River at f
£3: 15 per Acre J

1125

1782

OLIVER MARTIN

Dr

Septr

2d

To 150 Acres late Wil-^)
Ham Belfair on Du- 1
harts Creek at 147 per j
Acre

105

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 531
1782 PER CONTRA Cr

Septr

2d

By Bond Number 6 de-^j
livered to his honor I
the Governor as per f
Receipt 13th July i783J

1190

£ 1190

1782

PER CONTRA

C'

Septr

2d

By Bond Number 32 de-"")
livered to his honor 1
the Governor as per f
Rec4 27th Jan-r 1783 }

£ 1125

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

Septr

2d

By Bond Number 79 de-^
livered to his honor 1
the Governor the n |
Decr 1782 as per Rec'J

105

532 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 CHRISTOPHER HILLARY Dr

Septr

2d

To 100 Acres late Jo-"")

seph Marsh alls in

Queen sbor ou g h V

25

Township at 57 per

Acre

To 100 Acres late John

Pigg in Queensborough

30

Township at 67 p. A.

•£ 55

1782

JAMES JACKSON

Dr

Septr

2d

To 200 Acres late Da-^]

vid Greenes North 1

M

side Bryer Creek at [

230

237 per Acre

Jany

3d

To 500 Acres late Charles

1783

Burnets on R o c k e y

M

Comfort at 6/6 per Acre

162 :

IO

1872

DANIEL MCMURPHY

Dr

Sept'

2d

To 300 Acres late Phil-")

lip Helviuston on the I

N. side Bryer creek [

I5°

at io/ p. A

To 650 Acres late^l

Henry Sharps in four 1
tracts at £ i : 5 per |

812:

IO

Acre

To 400 Acres on dry")

Creek late Joseph 1

Marshals at 12/6 per |

240

Acre

To 100 Acres late JoO

seph Marshals Sen !

on Thorntons Creek f

3°

at 6/ per Acre

To 25 head Cattle late

Thos Bettys branded

T. B

107

To 35 head late James

Robinsons. R

252

To 4 head hogs-late D.

Russells

4

£ I595

10

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 533
1782 PER CONTRA Cr

Sepr

2d

By Bond Number 67 de- ^1
liveredtohishonorthe 1
Governor as per Re- [
ceipt the n Decr 1782 j

55

—

£ 55
1 2l

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

Septr

2d

By Bond Number 57^
delivered to his honor 1
the Governor as per j
Rec' 2 7 Jan7 1 783 J

230

Jan7

1/83

3d

By Bond Number 66^)
delivered to his honor [
the Govr as per Rec1 f
27 Jan7 1783 J

162 :

10

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

Sepr

2d

By Bond Number 8cO
delivered to his honor |

the Governor as per }-
Rec* ii December j

1,232:

10

1782

By Bond Number 81 de
livered to his Governor

as per Receipt n Dec7
1782

363

£i5595

IO

35 r r — vol 1

534 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 JOSHUA INMAN Dr

Septr

2d

To 200 Acres late WilO
liam Hammond on 1
lower Rockey Creek f
at 7/6 per Acre

^ 75

1782

FRANCIS BOIAKIN

Dr

Septr

2d

To 200 Acres late^
George Johnstons |
were the Quaker Road }•
crosses the big Creek j
at £ 2 per Acre )

•£ 400

1782

JOHN MORRISON

Dr

Septr

2d

To 150 Acres late )
George Johnstons at >
6/ per Acre )

45

1782

THOMAS CHISOLM

Dr

Septr

2d

To 200 Acres late Wm }
Reeds on dry creek >
at y/ per Acre J

To 6 head of Cattle 'J
late Mathew Llyle V
branded M L )

70
66

£ 136

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 535
1782 PER CONTRA Cr

Septr

2d

By Bond Number 33 ""j
delivered to his honor 1
the Governor as per [
Rec1 27th Jany 1783 J

^ 75

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

Septr

2d

By Bond Number 78
delivered to his honor
the Governor as per
Receipt IIth Decr 1782

£ 400

1782

PER CONTRA

e

Septr

2d

By Bond Number 45 ^
delivered to his honor j
the Governor as per }>
Rec1 IIth December j
1782

£ 45

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

Sepr

By Bond Number 43^
delivered to his honor !
the Govr as per Rec' [
nthDecr 1782 )

By Bond Number 44^
delivered to his honor 1
the Governor as per j
Rec' nth Decr 1782 J

70
66

£ 136

^_

536 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 JARED IRVINE Dr

Sepr
M

2d

To 150 Acres late^
Robert French on !
duhart creek at 4/6 j
per Acre

£ 33:

«

1782

JOHN GREENE

Dr

Septr

M

M

2*

To 500 Acres late"")
Thomas Flemmings i
were Gasper Griner f
lived at 2O/ per AcreJ

To 1000 Acres late"|
Thomas Flemming's 1
joining the above at [
3/ per Acre J

500

£ 650

1782

JAMES FLACK

Dr

Sepr

2a

To 600 Acres late George
Kingcades at 2/ per
Acre (on Bark camp
creek )

60

1782

LEMUEL LANIER

Dr

Sept'

2d

To a Negroe fellow late
John Thomas

£ 24

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 537
1782 PER CONTRA Cr

Sepr

2d

By Bond Number 77"]
delivered to his honor 1
the Govr as per Rec' [
ii Decr 1782 J

33-

15

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

Sepr

2d

By Bond Number 68^1
delivered to his hon
or the Governor as f
per Receipt 11 Decr
1782

650

£ 650

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

Sepr

2d

By Bond Number 21"]
delivered to his honor f
the Governor as per V
Receipt the i Ith Decr |
1782

60

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

Sepr

2d

By Bond Number 72
delivered to his honor
the Governor as per
Rec' 27" Jany 1783

£ 24

538 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 ALEXANDER IRVINE Dr

Septr

To 20 head Cattle late
Isaac Heating branded
R H

80

1782

JOHN PETTERSON

Dr

Septr

To 30 head of Cattle late
William Mangrum
branded WM

£ 205

1782

ABNER BICKHAM

Dr

Sepr

To 20 head of Cattle
late Samuel Love
branded LOVE

To 13 head of Cattle
James Llyle branded
JL

1 80

70

£ 250

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 539
1782 PER CONTRA Cr

Septr

2d

By Bond Number 76 de
livered his honor the

Governor as per Rec'
nth Decr 1782

80

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

Sepr

2"

By Bond Number 50 de
livered to his honor the

Govr as per Rec' nth
Decr 1782

£ 205

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

Sepr

2d

By Bond Number 75 de
livered to his honor the

Govr as per Rec' u
Decr 1782

250

£ 250

540 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 JOHN JONES Dr

Sepr

2d

To 60 head of Cattle )

late David Russel >

605

branded D R )

* To 5 head of Hogs late

Ogilvies

2 :

7

Jany

3d

To 500 Acres late^j

1783

Henry Sharps in'
three Tracts at 12/6 (

312:

10

per Acre J

Octr

21

To i Grind Stone pur- ^

1782

chased at the Sales >
in Savannah J

2 :

3

£ 922 :

o

i. Hand Mill Stone Pur

chased at the Sales in

Savannah by James

Jones & Desire to be

chd to John Jones by

Jame Jone

£. 9:

6

1782

ABRAHAM RAVOT

Dr

Sepr

2d

To ii head Cattle late

Jeremiah Rogers brand

ed R -

65

1782

JOSEPH PANNEL

Dr

Sepr

2d

To i Gelding late

Thomas Bettys

26

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 541
1782 PER CONTRA Cr

Sepr

2d

By Bond Number n de
livered to his honor the
Governor as per Rec' 9

April 1783

By Bond Number 7 de
livered to his honor the
Govr as per Rec' 9 April
1783

609 :
312:

10
10

£ 922 :

o

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

Sepr

2d

By Bond Number 6 de-""|
livered to his honor !
the Governor as per j
Rec' 9th April 1783 J

65

1782

PER CONTRA

cr

Sepr

2a

By Bond Number 49 de- ^
livered to his honor f
the Govr as per Rec1 [
ii Decr 1782 J

26

542 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 JOHN PALMER Dr

Octr

2ist

To 100 Acres late"")
Thomas Rutherfords !
on Duharts Creek j
at 15/6 per Acre

77 :

10

1783

MORDECAI SHEF-
TALL

Dr

Jany

3d

To 250 Acres, late Jo
seph Marshall a mile
below old Town at 47
per Acre

£ 50

To 100 Acres of late"")

Thos Redifords on

Lamberts big Creek, 1
Queens-borough |
Township at 7/6 per
Acre )

37^

10

£ 87:

10

1783

CORNELIUS COLLINS

Dr

Jany

3d

To 600 Acres late Sam- "]
uel Parleys known by i
Burringtons old Cow- |
pens at 367 p. Acre }

1080

£ 1080

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 543
1782 PER CONTRA Cr

Octr

21st

By Bond Number 30 de
livered to his honor
the Govr as per Rec'
27th Jany 1783

77 :

10

1783

PER CONTRA

cr

Jan*

3d

By Bond Number 17 de
livered to his honor the
Governor as per Rec1
27 Jan-T 1783

87 ;

10

£ 87:

IO

1782

PER CONTRA

D.

3d

By Bond Number 40 ^
delivered to his hon- |
or the Governor as )>
per Receipt 27th JanJ j
1783 )

1080

£ 1080

544 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1783 JAMES SHARP Dr

Jany

3d

To 200 Acres late John

Browns in Queens-

50

borough Township

at 5/ p. A.

£ 50

1783

JOHN. P. WAGNON

Dr

Jany

3d

To 500 Acres late Sam-"]

uel Parleys on Buck- I

162:

TO

head, at 6/6 per Acre J

1783

SETH J. CUTHBERT

D

JanJ

3d

To 1000 Acres late Pe- ")

ter Randolphs on Sa- !

vannah River at £ 3 : j

3 5°

3 p. Acre J

£3!5°

Sep4

2d

LUTHER HALLU-

Dr

1782

WELL

50 head of Cattle late

£260

John Thomas

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 545
1783 PER CONTRA Cr

Jany

3a

By Bond Number 20

delivered to his honor

50

the Governor as per

Rec1 27 Jan-T 1783

£ 50

1783

PER CONTRA

Cr

Jan7

3d

By Bond Number 66 de-^

livered to his honor 1
the Governor as per (

162 :

10

Rec' 27 Jan-T 1783

1783

PER CONTRA

Cr

Jan7

3d

By Bond Number 16 de

livered to his honor

31 5°

the Governor as per

Rec' 27 Jan7 1783

£ 3i50

2d Sep'
1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

By Bond N° 47 deliv

ered his honor the

£ 260

Govr

REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

An Account of Confiscated Cattle, paid to men who
was imploved by the Commissioners of Confiscated Es
tates, to hunt the Different Stocks of Cattle in Burk
County, at the time of Sale

I5-OCTI78,

paid John Lawson, 4 head
of Cattle, late George
Johnston, as ^> his
Receit

D°

paid John Irwin, 6 head
of Cattle, late George
Johnston, as %J his
Receit

D°

paid Alexr Irwin 5, head
of Cattle, late George
Johnston, as *$ his
Receit

D°

paid Hugh Irwin 5 head
of Cattle, late George
Johnston, as ^ his
Receit

D°

paid Roger Lawson Junr
4 head of Cattle, late
George Johnston, as ^
his Receit

D°

paid James Martin 4 head:
of Cattle, late George
Johnston, as °$ his
Receit

Octobr 1782

paid Levi Emanuel 4
head of Cattle, late
Robert Miller as ^ his

Receit

D°

paid Amos Emanuel 5
head of Cattle, late
Robert Miller as ^ his

Receit

D°

paid Thomas Nelson 5
head of Cattle, late
Robert Miller as ^ his

Receit

D°

paid Luther Halluwell,
4 head of Cattle, late
Robert Miller as ^ his

Receit

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 547

Sales of Confiscated Lands for the Counties of Glynn
and Carnden held at Savannah the 19th October 1782.

v^ommissioiicri) rresem.
John Baker Caleb Hovvel

James Martin Hugh Lawson

Josiah Powel Thomas Lewis

John Me Lean Abraham Ravot

Charles Odingsells

Purchasers Names

ANTHONY WALTON WHITE Dr
1782

Octr 19th

To 400 Acres late A. Carneys bounded N. W. by the )
River Altamaha at £ 1 : 3 p. A. )

£

460

s

To 300 Acres late A. Carneys at £i: 13 p. A.

495

To 300 D° D° at£i: 5 p. A.

375

To 99 D° D° at 8/ per Acre

39 =

12

To 300 D° D° at 2i/ per A.

315

To 300 D° D° at 147 per Acre

210

To 200 D° D° at 137 per Acre

I30

To 100 D° D° at 6/ per Acre

30

To 200 Acres late Kelsall & Spaldings at 137 p. A.

130

To 500 D° D° at 2o/ per Acre

500

To 500 D° D° at 247 p. A.

6OO

To 300 D° D° at iS/ p. Acre

270

To 200 D° D° at 3/6 p. A.

35

To 500 D° D° at 10/6 p. A.

262 :

IO

To 500 Acres late A. Carneys at £i: 11 p. A.

775

To 500 D° D° at g/ p. A.

225

548

REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

To 500 Acres late Jarne5 Spaldings at 167 p. A.

£
400

s

To 400 Acres late A. Carneys at 77 per A.

140

To 600 Acres late Jn° Graham's at 6/6 pr A.

195

To 400 D° D° at 7 p, A.

140

5727

2

1782

WILLIAM OBRYEN

Dr

Oct

19
M

To 500 Acres late A. Carneys at £ i :io p. A.
To 2600 D° late Capt. Ords at 9/6 per Acre
To 500 Acres late Jn° Grahams at 137 p. A.
To 350 Acres D° D° at n/ p. A.

To 1000 D° D° D° at 137 p. A.

750
1235
325
192 :
650

£3152

1782-

RICHARD LEAK

Dr

Octr
M
M

To 500 Acres late A. Carneys at 97 p. A.

To 200 D° late James Spslding at 227 p. A.

225
220

£445

SALES OK CONFISCATED ESTATES. 549
1782 PER CONTRA Cr

Octr

19

By Bond Number 35^
delivered to his hon- 1
or as per Rec' 27th j
Jan' 1783

5727:

2

£ 5727:

2

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

Octr

J9

By Bond Number 65 de
livered to his honor the
Governor as per Re
ceipt uth Decr 1782

3I52'

10

£3152:

IO

1782

PER CONTRA

O

Octr

19th

By Bond Number 2 de-"1)
livered to his Honor 1
the Governor as per {
9th April 1783

By Bond Number 3 de- ^
livered to his Honor i
the Govr as per Rec' j
9* April 1783 )

220
225

£ 445

-36 r r— vol 1

550

REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

CHRISr HILLARY & Wm M°INTOSH SEN'
1782 Dr

Octr

i9th

To 150 Acres late Kel-
sall & Spaldings at 137
per Acre

97 :

IO

To 1000 Acres late Jn°
Poisons at 14/6 pr Acre

725

To 300 Acres late Jn°
Proctor at 12/6 p. A.

187:

10

To 150 Acres late Jn°
Proctor at 8/ per Acre

60

£ 1070

0

1782

RAYMOND DEMERIE

Dr

Octr

19th

To 300 Acres late Ramd
Demeries Junrat 5 p. A.

75

M

To 700 Acres British
property at £ 3 : i p. A.

2i35

Jan7

3d

To 300 Acres late Jn°
Glenn's at 7/6 per Acre

112 :

IO

£ 2322

IO

1782

FRANCIS TENNEL

Dr

Octr
M

19th

To 250 Acres late A.
Carneys at 4/6 p. A.

56:

5

M

To a lot in Brunswick

late Jn° Graham's N°
128

22

£ 78

5

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 551

1782

PER CONTRA

Octr

19th

By Bond Number 71^
delivered to his honor !
the Governor as per f
Rec' uth Decr 1782 J

1070

£ 1070

1782

PER CONTRA

e

Octr

19

By Bond Number 69^)
delivered to his honor I
the Governor as per f
Rec' uth Decr 1782 J

By Bond Number 25 de
livered to his honor the
Govr: as per Receipt 9th
April 1783

22IO

112 :

10

£ 2322 :

10

i

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

Octr

*9

By Bond Number 29^)
delivered to his honor 1
the Governor as per [
Rec' 27th Jany 1783 J

78:

5

£ 78

5

552 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 JAMES HABERSHAM Dr

Oct'

J9

To 500 Acres late Jn0>)
Poison known by |
Blythe Island oppo- 1
posite Brunswick in f
Turtle River at £3 |
per Acre J

1500

£ 1500

1782

ROBERT WALTON

Dr

Octr

19th

To 1500 Acres late Jn° )
Grahams at £ i : 10 I
per Acre )

2250

£ 2250

—

1782

JAMES M°KAY

Dr

Octr
M

19th

To 50 Acres late Jn0>|
Poisons, called the
Hermitage kind of \-
Island at £ 3 : I per 1
Acre J

152:

10

£ 152:

10

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 553
1782 PER CONTRA O

Octr

1 9th

By Bond Number 45^1
delivered to his honor !
the Governor as per |
Receipt 27 Jany I783J

1500

£ 1500

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

Octr

J9

By Bond Number 2 de
livered to his honor the
Governor as per Re
ceipt nth Decr 1782

2250

£ 2250

1782

PER CONTRA

C'

Octr

19th

By Bond Number 66 ^)
delivered to his honor j
the Governor as per V
Receipt ;!nth Dec'
1782

152:

10

£ 152:

10

554 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 JOHN PETER WAGNON Dr

Octr

19-

To 200 Acres late John ^

William Williams at V

IOO

TO/ per Acre j

l'£ loo

Glynn and Camden Sales, in Savannah 3d January 1783

1783

WILLIAM M°INTOSH

JUNr

Dr

Jany

3

To 1000 Acres late^l
James Carsons of i
South Carolina at£ 2. [
1.6

2075

—

£ 2075

1782

DANIEL MCMURPHY

Dr

Octr

19th

To 500 Acres late Ar
thur Carneys at 237
per Acre

To 150 Acres late Arthur
Carneys at 1 7/ per Acre

To 300 Acres late Arthur
Carneys at 257 per Acre

575

127 :
375:

10

£ 1077:

10

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 555
1782 PER CONTRA Cr

Octr

19th

By Bond Number 31 de
livered to his honor the
Govr as per Rec' 27
Jany 1783

100

£ 100

1783

PER CONTRA

e

Jan*

3d

By Bond Number 60 ""I
delivered to his honor |

the Governor as }•
per Receipt 27th |
Jany 1783 J

2075

£ 2075

^^_

1783

PER CONTRA

Cr

Octr

19th

By bond number 55 de
livered to his honor the

Govr as per Receipt 27*

Jan7 1783

1077 :

10

£ 1077 :

10

556

REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

Sales of Confiscated Lands in Richmond County, held
at Augusta ioth September 1782.

Commissioners Present
Peter Paris Elijah Clarke

James Martin
Thomas Lewis
Hugh Lawson
Abraham Ravot

Daniel Coleman
John McLean
Charles Odingsells
Caleb Howel

1782

WILLIAM M°INTOSH JUNr Dr

Septr

10th

To one Moity or half )

of Spirit Creek saw >

505

M

mills )

£ 505

1782

JOHN TWIGG

Dr

Sepr

10th

To 450 Acres late John ^j

Jameison's known by i
New Savannah at [

4275

£ 9 : i o p. A. J

^ 4275

1782

ROBERT WALTON

Dr

Sepr

iolh

To 350 Acres late Jn0>)

Charles Lecenas join

ing lands of George >

1575

Whiches at £ 4 : 10

per Acre j

£ 1575

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 55T

1782

PER CONTRA

Sepr

10th

By Bond Number 40^1

delivered to his honor i

"

the Governor as per f

505

Rec1 nth Decr 1782 J

£ 505

1782

PER CONTRA

e

Sepr

iolh

By Bond Number i6~\

delivered to his honor 1

the Governor as per f

4275

Rec1 9th April 1783 J

£ 4275

1782

PER CONTRA

cr

Sepr

10th

By Bond Number 3 deO
livered to his Honor !

the Govr as per Rec' f

1575

ii Decr 1782 J

£ J575

558 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 CHESLEY BOSTICK Dr

Sepr

10

To 500 Acres late Revd>|
James Seymour
whereon is a large f
dwelling house at £7:
i per Acre J

3525

£ 3525

1782

SAMUEL JACK

Dr

Sepr

10th

To a Lot in the Town
ship of Augusta N°

50 Acres at £ 7 : 15 per
Acre late Martin

387:

10

Weatherfords J

•

To a lot late Martin ^
Weatherford in Au- ,
gusta N° 4. 50 Acres '
at £ 47 p. A. J

2350

£ 2737

10

1782

THOMAS HAMILTON

Dr

Sepr

ioth

To 100 Acres late^
Martin Weatherfords

on Reids Creek, join
ing lands of the Wid
ow Wood at 177 per
Acre

85

£ 85

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 559
1782 PER CONTRA Cr

Sepr

10th

By Bond Number 15 de
livered to his honor the

Governor as per Rec'
9th April 1783

3525

\

£ 3525

1782

PER CONTRA

e

Sepr

10th

By Bond Number 24 de
livered to his honor the

Governor as per Rec'
9th April 1783

2737 :

10

£ 2737:

1C

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

Sepr

10th

By Bond Number 21 de
livered to his honor the

Governor as per Rec1
9th April 1783

85

£ 85

560 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 LEONARD MARBERRY Dr

Sepr

10th

To 50 Acres in the"")
Town of Augusta late
James Grierson, }•
known by Griersons |
Fort at £ 51 per Acre J

255°

£ 2550

1782

ARCHIBALD OFFERT

Dr

Sepr

10th

To 100 Acres late James
Griersons, on the Kio-
kas joining Lands Coll :
Gardens at 22/6 per
Acre

112 :

10

£ 112:

10

1782

JOHN MILLEDGE

Dr

Sepr

10th

To 200 Acres late An-""]
drew More's were he !
resided at £ 9 per [
Acre

1800

£ 1800

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 561
1782 PER CONTRA Cr

Sepr

10th

By Bond Number i De- "1
liver'd to his honor
the Governor as per *>
Receipt 13th July
1783

2550

^ 2550

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

Sepr

10th

By Bond Number 14
delivered to his honor
the Governor as per
Rec' 9th April 1783

112 :

10

£ 112 :

10

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

Sepr

10th

By Bond Number 13 ^
delivered to his honor 1
the Govr as per Re- [
ceipt 9th April 1783 )

1800

£ 1800

562 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 CLEMENTIUS DAVIS Dr

Sepr
M

ioth

To 150 Acres late John^
Glenns, known by i
Claybourns Mill seat [
at 307 per A. J

225

£ 225

1782

THOMAS MOORE

Dr

Septr

10th

To 300 Acres late John
Jameison's known by
Walnut point Planta
tion at £ 3 : 13 p. A.

1095

£ 1095

1782

JOHN PETER
WAGNON

Dr

Octr

19-

4

To 150 Acres late^
George Bailies near 1
Augusta at 367 per j
Acre J

266.

5

£ 266:

5

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 563
1782 PER CONTRA Cr

Sepr

10

By Bond Number 20 de
livered to his honor
the Governor as per
Receipt 9'" April 1783

225

£ 225

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

Sepr

10th

By Bond Number 19^
delivered to his honor 1
the Governor as per f
Rec' 9 April 1783

1095

£ 1095

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

Octr

19th

By Bond Number 53 de
livered to his honor
the Governor as per
Rec1 nth Decr 1782

266:

5

£ 266:

5

-564 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782 WILLIAM MATHEWS Dr

,Sepr

JQtb

To 500 Acres, late^)
James Grierson lying |
on the Swamp near I
Rockey Creek about [
4 Miles from Augusta |
at 26/ per Acre

To 400 Acres late^i
Lewis Johnston Sen' 1
adjoining John Wests f

lanrl at TC/ T»fr Apff

£ 650
300

£ 950

1782

ROBERT BONNER

Dr

£epr

10th

To A Town Lot in Au
gusta late Jn° Grahams

To A Town Lot in Au
gusta late Lachn M'Gil-
livrays

1 20
310

£ 430

1782

DANIEL MCMURPHY

Dr

Sepr

10th

To 2 houses in Augusta
late Ja8 Ingram's

£ 225

:

:

1782

JOHN LAMAR

Dr

£eptr

10th

To 300 Acres of land late
James Grierson lying
on Rockey Creek where
the Bridge is at 8/ per
Acre

£ 120

00

£ 120

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 565
CONTRA C1

By Bond Number 18^]
delivered to his honor j
the Governor as per *>
Rec' the 9th April |
1783

95<>
£ 950

1782

CONTRA

e

Sepr

10th

By bond Number 2 de-')
livered his honor the i
Govr as per Receipt f
1 3th July 1783

43o:

—

CONTRA

1782

PER CONTRA

Cr

Sep

10th

i

37 r r-roll

566 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.
ROGER CANNON

1

30 Acres late Edward

Ashton about 4 miles

from Augusta on the

33

Quakers Road at 22/

per Acre

GEORGE HANDLEY

450 Acres late W" ,Man-

son's known by Isaac

Jackson said to be ex

1462 :

10

ceeding good high land

at £3 : 5 per Acre

THOMAS GLASCOCK

200 Acres late William

Manson in Wrightsbor-

ough township, with a

2io :

o

good Log house at 217

per Acre

200 Acres late George

Johnston on little River

85

at 8/6 per Acre

300 Acres late Doctr Peter

Walsh on the Great

Kioka adjoining Clay-

bourne Mill seat at £2

pr Acre

500 Acres late Sir James

Wrights adjoining
lands Jon" Scill at io/

£ 250

per Acre

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 567

Sales of confiscated Lands in Wilks County, held at
Coll : Micajah Williamson's the 2Oth September 1783

Commissioners Present

Daniel Coleman, Thomas Lewis

John Mc Lean, Hugh Lawson

Caleb Howel Abraham Ravot
James Martin

5C8

REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1782

WILLIAM MCINTOSH JUNr Dr

Septr
M

M

20'

To 100 Acres late^i

Thomas Waters, on |

a place called Log J>

Fort at £2:11 pr |

Acre )

To Yinr feres late>|
Henry William's on I
Fishing creek at £ i : f
1 6 per Acre

To 200 Acres late
iel Phillips on the |
Ridge between Ket- ^
tie and Long Creek |
@ 19 pr Acre )

To 200 Acres late Sam-^j
uel Wilkins adjoining |
lands Richd Webb on
Mill Stone Creek at

255

1800
TTfT

IQO

2IO

£ 2455

£ 2455

1782

SOLOMON NEWSON

Dr

Sepr

20th

To i oo Acres late John"
Furlow on little Bry-
ar creek and Savan
nah Road at 7/ per
Acre

•

£ 35
£ 35

—

1782

THOMAS GLASCOCK

Dr

Sepr

20th

To 400 Acres late Reu-^j
ben Sheralds, on sher- i
aids creek at 417 per [
Acre )

£ 820

To 400. Acres late Rue-
bin Sheralds on Sher
alds Creek ©19/7
To 850. Acres late Wm
Jones of Savannah on
Waters of fishing Creek
@4/

391
i7c

-3 4

(The above entered in another Book— Wilks Coty fo 1 in blue book

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 569
1782 CONTRA Cr

Sepr

2Oth

By Bond Number 39 de
livered to his honor the
Governor as per Re*
ceipt nth Dec' 1782

Mortgage for £1260")
$ Contra is given by >
Lachlan Mlntosh j

2455

•e 1455

1782

CONTRA

Cr

Sepr

20th

By Bond Number 5^1
delivered to his hon- 1
or the Governor as j
Receipt 13th July 1783]

35

:

:

^ 35

1782

CONTRA

Cr

Sepr

20th

By Non Compliance for
400 acres land Ruben
Sheralds-

820

-

-

570 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1783 ZACHARAH LAMAR Dr

Novr

„•

400 Acres land late the
pro-T of Ths Waters En
tered in a Nother Book

£ 211 :

blue book Wilkes

County fo .
DJ

1783

DANIEL GAINS

Dr

Novr

nth

To 500 : Acres land late
J: Gordan— (^ 8/8 pr
Acr

216 :

4

500 ditto. Burton Cabin s
@ 10/6

262 :

10 :

.

500 ditto, above Chucka-
saw @ 9/

225:

.

Entered in another Book

as above

DJ

1783

HOLMS FREEMAN

Dr

Novr

nth

To 500. Acres land late
proy of James Gordan
Adjoining Chickasaw
Creek @ @ 147.

=£350:

500. Acres late John
Howard on falling
Creek @ 6/8

166:

13

4

as above

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 571
CONTRA Cr

CONTRA

Cr

CONTRA

Cr

572 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

WILLIAM CANDLER Dr

1783

Novr

To 500 Acres land late
the pror of John
Howard on falling
Creek @ 6/8

£ 166:

13

4

folio 2-as above

DJ

FRANCIS COUR-.
VOISIE

Dr

1783

Novr

n ; To 300 Acres land on lit
tle River at the mouth

of Jumping Branch late
the pro7 of J° Howard
(a.. 7/2

107 :

10 :

*

blue book Wilkes

County f° 2

DJ:

RICHARD ACOCK

Dr

1783

Novr

To 100: Acres land late

W m . M a n s o n . on

Rocky Creek- Run for

a Mill Seat @, 2/6

12 :

10 :

•

as above

DJ:

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 573
CONTRA Cr

CONTRA

CONTRA

574 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1783 JOSEPH PENNAL Dr

Novr

ii.

To 500. Acres late Wil
liam Manson known by
the three Spring (a) i6/
as above

400 :

DJ:

1783

MICAJAH WIL
LIAMSON

Dr

Novr

ii.

To. 200. Acres land late

Daniel Phillips on the
Ridge Between Kettle
Creek & long Creek (m

3/7
as above

35:

16:

8:

DJ:

1783

NATHEN BARNET

Dr

Novr

ii'

To. 100. Acres land late

the pro-v of Abm Wil-
kins North side of

Broad River adjoining
land of Nathen Barnet

£ 20.

16.

8.

@ 4/2
f° 3- above

D J

1783

WILLIAM KELLY

Dr

Novr

ii

To 300. Acres late Ed
ward Crawford on the

North Side of Ogechee
at the mouth of long
Creek @ 16/3
blue book Wilkes

243:

J5:

-

County fo 3.
D J:

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 575
CONTRA C

CONTRA

CONTRA

CONTRA

576 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

Richmond County.
1783 CHESLEY BOSTICK Dr

Novr

lgth

To 300 : Acres of land
late John J e m i s o n
Known by Walnut
Plantation @ £3:197.

1185

200 : Acres more or less

late James Seymore
pine land (aj, 20/1

200 :

16:

8:

i : par hand Mill Stone
late James Seymore

4 =

10 :

I.

Ent in another Book —

blue book Richmond

county f° /
DJ

1783

JOHN TWIGGS

Dr

Novr

18

To 450. Acres land late
John Jemison New Sa
vannah Plantation @

£8: i/

£ 7622

10

as above

D J:

1783

GEORGE WYCHE

Dr

Novr

18

To 350 : Acres land late
John lucena @ £5 : i6/.

£ 2030 :

_ ;

_

as above

D J

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 577

CONTRA

CONTRA

CONTRA

578 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1783 ROBERT WALTON Dr

Novr

1 8th

To 500. Acres land late
James Seymore with
Dweling house at £7 : 3

600 Acres late Basil Coop
er on Rockey Creek (^

10 I I

£ 3575 :
302 :

10 :

-

as above
DJ

1/83

EDWARD TELFAIR

Dr

Novr

1 8th

To a lot in the Township
of Augusta N° 15. Con
taining 50 Acres late
Martin Weatherford
Bounded by lands of
William Glascock @
£15. per Acre

E
blue book Richmond
County f° 2
D J

750:

- :

1783

CORNELAS DYSART

Dr

Novr

18

To. 1350: Acres land late
William Manson & for
merly the pro7 of Wm
Candler @ 38/9
300. acres late Doctr Pe
ter Welsh on the Great
Kioke adjn Claborne
mill Seat @ 707 .

£ 2615:
ICKO :

12.

6.

200: Acres late James
Greyson on the big Ki
oke adjoining land of
Cartlidge (a), 13/1

E as above D J

130

16

8

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 579
CONTRA Cr

CONTRA

CONTRA

Cr

580 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1783 GEORGE WALTON Dr

Novr

1 8th.

To: 250. Acres land late
Martin Weatherford ad
joining lands of Wm
Bugg & Peter Turkey-
net @ 53/.

150: Acres late George
Bailie Near the Town

of Augusta (a\ 47 :

I
|

100. Acres late L: Mc-l
Gill very on Reeds Mill,
Creek (a). 6i/__

as above

662:

352:

300:

10 :

10 :

1783

DANIEL WALLICON

Dr

Novr

18.

To 100. Acres land late
Martin Weatherford on
Reids Mill Creek ad
joining Weddon Woods

450. Acres late Wm Man
son and Known by the
of Wm Jackson's

Entered in another Book

blue book Richmond
County f° 3.

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 581
CONTRA Cr

CONTRA

r r--vol 1

REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

An Account of Lands, sold, by the Commissioners
of Confiscated Estates, in the town of Augusta, on
Tuesday the 13th and Wensday the fourteenth day of
Septr 1785, in the Counties of Richmond and Burk—

Richmond County Sales. Septr 13"'

1785
JOHN GARRET Dr

To. 600 Acres of land late John Jem-
isons, bounded Southeast by land
of Middleton. all other sides va
cant at the time of Survey, at 2/6
^ Acre _

To 500 Acres of land late Charles
William M° Kennen, bounded
southeast by land of John Jones,
and Southwest partly by John
Jones, at 3/2 ^ Acre - -

£ 75

77
J53

278
104

i
18

8
3

8

4
4

To 513 Acres late Lewis Johnstons,
in Wrightsborough Township
bounded Norwest by land on little
River, Northeast by John Graham,
at 6/ f>> Acie _ _

To 1285 Acres late Sir James Wrights
in Wrightsborough Township,
bounded east by land of John Gra-

Northeast by Joseph Stubbs, West
by the old Indian path, South by
Francis Jones, at 4/4 *$ Acre

To 500 Acres late James Humes —
bounded Noreast by little River
and land of Hatton Middleton,
Southeast partly by land of John
West, at 4/2 ty Acre. _.

£ 688

ii

4

SALES OK CONFISCATED ESTATES. 583

CONTRA Cr

[3th Septr

1785

By Bond and Mortgage N° 73,

£ 688:

ii :

4

£ 688:

ii':

4

584

REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

THOMAS GLASCOCK

13th Septr ) To 350 Acres of land
T7^5 / late William Johnstons,
Lying on a branch of Keg Creek,
adjoining land of James Orric, at

5/1 f Acre

To 500 Acres late Alexander Ingles,
bounded Southwest, by land of
Mr B u g g , Southeast by land of
James Story, at i6/ "$ Acre

£ 88

400

£ 488

JAMES STALLINGS Dr

th Septr
1785

To 500 Acres of land late John Mul-

rynes, and Josiah Tatnalls, bound

ed Norwest by land Vacant. East

by John Tinkler. Southwest by

Andrew Jones, and Northeast by

Benjamin Wilkinson, at 3/6 ~$ Acre

87

10

-

To 500 Acres late Charles William

M°Kennen, bounded north by land

of James M°Farland, and east by

land late John Graham's and John

Dennis's at 3/6 ^ Acre

8?

10

To 500 Acres late James Humes

bounded Northeast partly by land

of Mr. Swint and Southeast by-

land of Samuel Germany at 4/9

f Acre

118

15

£ 293

15

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 585
13th Septr CONTRA C

By bond and Mortgage N° 78

£ 488

IQ

2

£ 488

JO

2

I3*|e-pt' CONTRA Cr

By bond and Mortgage N° 73

£ 293:

15

•••

£ 293:

I5

586 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

13th Septr

1785

JAMES M. STUART

Dr

To 500 Acres of land late Charles
William McKennen, bounded on all
sides by vacant land at the time of
Survey at 0/8 ^ Acre ....

To 300 Acres late James Humes,
bounded by vacant land on all sides
at the time of Survey, at 0/6 ^ Acre

£ 16

7

10

4

£ 24

3

4

13th Sept1
1785

JOHN KING

To 500 Acres of land late Charles Wil
liam McKennen, bounded by vacant
land on all sides at the time of Sur
vey («) 1/7 1$ Acre

£ 39

1 1

8

To 100 Acres late William Hansons,
Situate in Wrightsborough Town
ship bounded Northeast by land of
Mordecai Moore, partly Norwest and
Southwest by land of Edward
Eckles, at 10/1 f Acre

£ 50

8

4

£ 90

00

0

13th Septr
1785

JESSE SANDERS

Dr

To 500 Acres of land late Charles
William M°Kennen, bounded north
easterly by land of Hugh Middleton
Southwest by land of Mr Read. South
by John Germany at 6/r ^ Acre

£ 152
£ 152

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 587

14th Septr

CONTRA

Bv Audited Certificates

£ 24 :

A

£ 24:

3:

4

13th Septr
CONTRA
1785

C'

By bond and Mortgage ND 85

By Audited Certificates

£ 39
50

ii
8

8
4

£ 90

00

o

i3!h Septr
CONTRA

C

r

By bond and Mortgage Nc 79

£ IS2

I

8

<£ 152

I

8

588

REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

13th Septr

NEHAMIAH WADE
1785 Dr

To 100 Acres of land late John Light-
ingston. bounded Southeast by land
of Robert Co wen. Noreast by
land run by William Candler.
Norwest by land of George Upton,
and Daniel McCarty, @ 6 / i ^ Acre

45

12

8

£ 45

12

8

13th Sept1

ROBERT FORSYTHE Dr

17^5

To 1000 Acres of land late George
Bailies, bounded Southeasterly by
land of said Bailie at i / 6 "p Acre

£ 75

£ 75

13"' Septr

NATHANIEL PERREA Dr

To 500 Acres of land late Basil Coop
er Bounded Southeast by land of
John Crawford and Thomas Groves,
Southeast by land of George Dickey,
Northwest by land of Thomas
Johnston formerly Joseph Farleys,
@ 5 / 6 <$ Acre

IO

£ I?7

IO

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 589

13th Septr
,785 CONTRA Cr

By Audited Certificates

£ 45

12

8

£ 45

12

8

13th Septr

CONTRA pr

1785 C

By bond and Mortgage N° 75

£ 75

<£ 75

13th Septr
CONTRA C
1785

By bond and Mortgage N° 74

£ 137

IO

£ 137

IO

590 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

13th Septr

1785

WILLIAM STEVENS

To 400 Acres of land late James
Humes Bounded Southwest by land
of Mr Mosman and Alexander Cold-
well. Southeast by land of Brown
Noreast by land of William Candler
Norwest by Thomas Stapler, at 5/
m Acre_.

£ 100

£ 100

3th Septr
g

Dr

To 700 Acres of land John Humes
bounded Southeast by land of John
Tinkler. - Shepperd, and Eli

Fort at 2/7 ^ Acre

£ 90

8

£ 90

8

3* Septr
1785

JAMES LAUDER

Dr

To 500 Acres of land late James Gra
hams, bounded Southeast by land of
Richard Meadows, northeast by land
of James Read, at 6/ ^ Acre

£ 150

£ 150

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 591
f Septr

CONTRA

e

By Bend and Mortgage Nc 82 _______

£ 100

£ 100

1 3th Septr
1785

CONTRA

By Audited Certificates

£ go

8

A

£ 90

8

4

13th Sept1

CONTRA

By Bond and Mortgage Nc 76.

£

£ 150

592 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

13th Sept'
I78(. JOHN LAMAR Dr

To 200 Acres of land late William
Mansons, Situate in Wrightsbor-
ough Township bounded east by
land of William Hixon. North by
land of John Stuart Junier. formerly
David Baldwin's at 10/1 fJ Acre__

£ 100

16

8

£ 100

16

8

13th Septr
g RUEBEEN COLEMAN DF

To 750 Acres of land late James Grier-
son's on little River near or in
Wrightsborough Township adjoin-

late

ing land of said Grierson. 1 1/6 ^
Acre - - .

£ 431

5

£ 431

5

1 4th Septr

LITTLE BERRY BOSTICK ^r
1785 D

To 50 Acres of land late John Hen
derson, adjoining land of Little B.
Bostick. and land late John Phillips
Decd Originally granted Hezekiah
Wade at 3/5 ^ Acre

£ 8

10

10

10

£ 8

10

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 593

13th Septr
CONTRA

1785

C

By bond and Mortgage N° 84

£ 100

16

8

£ 100

16

8

i3tb Septr
CONTRA

T/b5

C

r

By bond and Mortgage N° 82

£ 431

C

£ 431

5

14th Septr
I?85 CONTRA

C

r

By Audited Certificate .

£ 8

IO

TO

£ 8

IO

10

594 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

The following lands lies in Burk County —

14th Septr M
1785 JAMES A STUART D'

To 200 Acres of land Thomas Read's
and formerly the property of Val-
intine Rollings worth at i/ ^ Acre

£ 10

£ 10

14th Sepf
1785

JOSHUA IN MAN

Dr

To 500 Acres of land late Samuel
Douglas's, bounded Noreast and
Southeast by land of Lachlen
M°Gillivrey — formerly Margaret
Ewens. at 64/1 ^ Acre

£ 1602 :

i

8

£ 1602 :

i

8

14th Septr
1785

To a lot in the Town of Queensbor-
ough known by the Number Eleven.
Also 100 Acres of land late (each)
the property of Robert M'Cormick.
in Queensborough Township bound
ed Noreast by Lambeths big Creek,
South by land of William Harden.
West by the Town Commons, North
by land of Patrick McKay said lot.
and land was origenally granted
Clotworthy Robison at 2/4 ^ Acre

ii

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 595

14th Septr

1785

CONTRA

By Audited Certificates

£ TO

£ 10

14th Septr
'785

CONTRA

By bond and Mortgage N° 77

£ 1602

i

8

£ 1602

i

8

i4thSeptr CONTRA Cr
J7y5

By Audited Certificates

£ ii

••

4

£ ii

'3

4

596 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

JOHN CLEMENTS

14th Septr
1784

D

To 200 Acres of land late Robert
MeCormick's, on a branch of Buck-
head Origenally granted to James
Simpson at 5/4 ^ Acre

£ c?

6

8

To 500 Acres late Samuel Douglas's
bounded Noreast by land of Seth
Slocumb, Southwest by land of said
Douglas @ 47 ^ Acre

£ 100

To 200 Acres late Henry Younge Junr
bounded Noreast by Paul Harolson-
and on all other sides by Vacant
land at the time of Survey at 7/8
f Acre

£ 76

!3

4

£ 230

oo

o

14th Septr

EMANUEL WAMBERSIE

To 400 Acres of land late George
Baillie bounded on all sides by va
cant land at the time of Survey, at
1/7 f Acre

To 500 Acres late Samuel Douglas's
bounded Noreast by Said Douglas,
all other side Vacant at the time of
Survey, at 3/9^ Acre.

93

125

13

15

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 597

14th Septr
I785 CONTRA C

By Audited Certificates

£ 250

£ 230

-

14'" Septr

CONTRA

Cr

By Audited Certificates.

£ 125

£ 125

"fir r— TO!

598

REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

14th Septr
1785 ROBERT FORSYTH

Dr

To 500 Acres of land late George
Baillie's bounded South by land
held by Thomas Lamb, and Great
Ogeche River at 7/6 <j$> Acre .

£ 187

10

£ 187

10

14* Septr

1785 GEORGE HANDLEY for
JOHN Mc QUEEN __

Dr

To 250 Acres of land late Robert
Mc Cormick's bounded Noreast by
land of James Gray, Thomas Shuder,
and Savannah River, norwest by
Jonathen Mulkey at 94/ $ Acre

£ 1175

\£ 1175

14th Sepf
1785 JOHN TWIGGS

Dr

To 500 Acres of land late Samuel
Douglas's, Bounded by land of Ed
mund Hill, South by land of Brown
West by Isaac Perry at 9/5 f) Acre

^ 235

8

4

£ 235

8

4

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 599

14th Septr
CONTRA

Cr

By bond and Mortgage N" 83- _

£ 187

10

£ 187

IO

14th Septr
1785 CONTRA

C'

By bond and Mortgage N° 86

£ "75

£ 1175

14th Septr
1785 CONTRA

Cr

By Audited Certificates

£ 235

8

A

£ 235

8

4

600

REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

22d AugUSt
1785

SAMUEL STIRK AND

JAMES JACKSON Dr

To 380 Acres of land late Josiah Tat-
nall,s in Chatham County, adjoin
ing the light house tract. Savan
nah River and land of Thomas
Younge. Katharine Mulryne. Ma
ry Tatnall. Mary Farley, and lit
tle Tybe Inlet at 5 / 6 $ A

£ 104

10

£ 104

10

22d AugUSt
1785

HUGH LAWSON

Dr

To a lot in the town of Brunswick
late Sir James Wrights- Containing
ninety feet in front and one hun
dred and eighty feet in depth and
known by the N° 114 : at £ 51

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 601
CONTRA Cr

£ 104

10

£ 104

10

22d Augt

1785

CONTRA

Cr

£ 51

602 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

A List of Negroes paid to the Georgia State Legion ,
Commanded by Lieu1 Colonel James Jackson, by the
Commissioners of Confiscated Estates _

Delivered, Captain James Stallings, twenty four, ne-

lately

groes belonging to the persons hereinafter
Named, as per Receit dated 13* June 1782.
appraisment as follows viz —

of Lachlan M°Gillivery Estate

Negroes Names Doctor ________ £

Sipio. 60 (£

Frances _________ 65 f •3->

Barrock _______ 50 J

George . 25^1

Fortemo _________ 50 I „ /-

0.,, ° >£ 160

Sibbey. — __ 35 j

Tenah ________ 50]

Sappo ________ 28^

Samson ---- . 45 |

Cumbo ________ 40 }•£ 233

Pompey _______ 70 |

Sarah _________ o £ 628

of David Duncan Estate

Isaac - - £ 35) £
Morris 35 /

Sam . 6 s 1 i

C11 ° >£ 115

Sally 50]

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 603
Venus _ _£ 4^ ) <

0 . ^° V£ 120

Pans 75]

Cloe _. 30

* 30 335

of Halls, Estate, _ _ Lester £ 40, 40

of Greenwood and Hagison Es
tate, Will £ jo - 70

of Mathew Lyle's Estate, Liberty

£80 _ 80

of Johnston's Estate, Braveboy

£65_. 65

Delivered Lieu'. Colo. James Jackson, Twelve
negroes, as per his Receits, dated the
9th of June and the 24'" of July 1782,
negroes, names and appraisement as
follows

Charles £60 _ late John:McGillivery

o
Morgan. £55 late James Dill

late of the Estate of John Mulrine Tat-
nal viz :

Bob _ . _ . £

40 ^

April ..
July..

Dill £

t^ i

40 >£
60 j

SO")

140

Bess

(

40 V £

I ^O

Parris . . -

little Bob
Lindy _.
Ceila .___

T-W f
60 j

35)

30 U

5°)

3

IJ5

nany and Child . ... £ 45 V £ 45 £ 450

604

REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

Delivered Thomas Hamilton, Lieut
four negroes late Hevy
Sharps, as ^ his Receit 22d
October 1782

Viz. Buck £70!^

Jenny 50)

Hannah £ 50

Sanco_. 60

1 20

no

Delivered

Delivered

Delivered

Delivered

Merideth Davis,onenegroe^|
and half, late Jas Seymore !
his Receit, and f

as

Colo1 Jackson's Certificate J

Captain James Stallins,
two old negroes in lieu of
a prime slave due Thomas
Burch, as ^ his Receit V
30'" January 1783 sd ne
groes late Lachlan M'Gili-
ivery __.

William Burch, one ne-
groe, late James Seymore,
as per his Receit 7th De-
cemr 1782

William Lock, one negroe, ")
as per his Receit, 6th Feb- |
ruary 1783, and Colo. }>
Jackson Certificate in fa- |
vourof Nicolas Hawkins_ J

230

75

60

5°

£ 2248

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 605

Continued 2248

Delivered Captain Sherred Bugg,^
three negroes, late Ja3 !
Seymore as ^ his Receit j
2oth January 1783 J

Delivered Lieu' Thomas Hamilton^
one uegroe, late Jas Sey- !
more as ^ his Receit 3d j
Decemr 1782 say 55

Delivered Doctor Humphry Wells, ^
three negroes late Jas Sey- I
more as ~$ his Receit De- j
cemr 25th 1782

Delivered John Lamar, two Small
negroes boys, in lien of
one prime Slave, (due
Doctor Hir.npry Wells) as }-
~$ his Receit, 31"' Januy
1783, &'1 negroes lute Jas
Seymore

Delivered John Lamar, one negroe^
late Ja3 Seymore's, (which I
was due Jehu Gamble) as J
^ his Receit, 31'" January j
I782_.

Delivered Captain James Stallings a
wench and Child, late Ja8
Seymore in lieu of a wench
and Child, (Viz Feby and
ben) which was proved to
be the property of David
Duncan as f* his Receit
2ist January 1783 }

Delivered James Stallings, one ne-^)
groe, in lieu of one proved !
from him, as fJ Receit. 2ist j
Jany 1783

Delivered John Buchannan, for him
self and two sons Viz,
James and William, as per
his Receit, 27"' Septr 1782
three Negroes, late James
Seymore

* 5°

5°

60

606

REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

Delivered Captain Henry Allison,^

two negroes, Viz, York late

James Seymore, and one late ,

TOO

Lewis Johnstons, as per his Re- [

J. \J\J

ceits, 22d January and 3istjnly

1783- J

Delivered Captain John Morrison,^

one negroe wench and twosmal j

Children, late James Seymore, |

in lieu of the like Negroes, (he J>

75

had paid to him ; which was

proved to be Mr Duncans prop

erty,) as $ his Receit 6th De-

cember 1782

Delivered Captain John Morrison *

one negroe, as per Receit 6'" V

5°

December 1783 J

Delivered Captain James Stallings,^ ,

one negro late Henry Youngs, I

CO

for William Entrican as per j

5°

his Receit, iQ1" July 1783 - J

Delivered Lieu^Thotnas Hamilton, ~|

one negro (bob) as $ his Re- >

60

ceit. Ist July i;83£ 60 J

Delivered Captain James Stallings,^

one small negro girl about j

four years old, being one third V

20

value of a prime slave as per j

Receit, 1 5th July 1783 -

^ 3328

SALES OF CONFISCATED ESTATES. 607

An account of negroes, Delivered Governor Martin,
for the Support of his family, by the Commissioners of
Confiscated Estate 1782

Viz, Cato and Boatswain, late
James Butlers Primus, late the
property of a British officer
Sipo, Nanny, Sylla, and Paris
late George Fox's
little Will, and Jenny, late
John Fox's Molly, late Collin
Campble

Suppose each ne-
groe to average
at £ 50 ._ is £
500

The above Negroes, was Delivered Govr Martin as
his Receit, id'1' September 1782

APPENDIX.

When, during the progress of the War for Indepen
dence, it was deemed by the legislature necessary to pass
the acts of amercement, confiscation and banishment,
the names of some not really at heart opposed to the
popular cause were included in the acts. They had been
guilty of no overt acts of disloyalty to the State, but
were under suspicion only. Others whose acts of disloy
alty were not flagrant, or only technical, were also in
cluded, as were still others who were really attached to
the royal government, but whose associations and en
vironments were such as to excuse them for their atti
tude. Many of the persons thus included in the dis
qualifying acts were, moreover, the fathers or brothers
of patriots who were actively and loyally supporting, on
the field of battle and in the councils of the state, the
cause of the people. The ties of blood are strong, and
hence after the conflict was over and the independence
of the states was acknowledged by the King, those pa
triots who had relatives on the other side were disposed
to seek clemency for them, and the representatives in the
legislature of the people who had been victorious in the
struggle were in a temper to be magnanimous. As a re
sult, at almost every session of the legislature for a score
or more of years after the close of the war, special acts
were passed for the relief of such persons named in the
disqualifying acts as seemed to the law makers worthy
of such clemency. To complete the record and do no in
justice to the men to whom such clemency was extended,
and to their descendants, it is deemed proper to compile
and publish in this appendix as many of these acts of
clemency as we have been able to find. That we include
all such acts as were passed is not probable, but none that
we have been able to find have been omitted.

610 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

(From State Archives.)
AN ACT

For the taking the name of WILLIAM STEPHENS
from and out of the Amercement law of this State, and
for the restoring him to all the rights Privileges and
immunities of a free Citizen.

WHEREAS in and by the Confiscation law Passed at
Augusta on the fourth day of May one thousand seven
hundred and eighty two, for inflicting penalties on and
confiscating the Estates of such persons as are therein
Declared Guilty of Treason and for other purposes there
in mentioned, the Name of William Stephens was therein
included, and the Person of the said William Stephens
was thereby Attainted and his property confiscated to
and for the use of the said State. AND WHEREAS
on the fifth day of August last past the Legislature con
sidering many good and sufficient reasons for their so
doing, did take from and without the confiscation law
certain persons therein named, and among others the
said William Stephens and placed the said Persons on
the Act for Amercing certain Persons therein Named,
and for other purposes therein mentioned, Passed the day
and Year last aforementioned, whereby the Property
only of the said persons became effected, exclusive of
Incapability to serve the State during the time therein
laid down and Specified. -AND WHEREAS the Con
duct of the said William Stephens has been such as to
merit the further Attention of the Good Citizens of this
State. —

BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED — by the freemen of the
State of Georgia in General Assembly met and it is here
by enacted by and with the Authority aforesaid that
from and immediately after the Passing- this Act the said

APPENDIX.

William Stephens, shall be, and he hereby is fully and
amply reinstated in the full Possession of all and every
right and rights, Privileges, immunities and liberties
which a free Citizen Possibly can, may, or now does hold
within the State of Georgia aforesaid, any thing in the
sdd Confiscation or Amercement Laws to the Contrary
thereof contained Notwithstanding

AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED that all Paragraphs,
Sentences, or words mentioning, Speaking of, or Con
cerning the said William Stephens, in the said laws, or
either of them, are hereby Repealed, and Declared null
and Void, and of no effect.

AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED that this Act shall be
a Public Act and given as such in evidence.

By order of the House
House of Assembly

N W JONES. Speaker

Savannah 8.th February 1783.

(From State Archives.)
AN ACT

For amercing certain persons therein named, and admit
ting others to the rights of Citizenship; and for other
purposes therein Mentioned.

WHEREAS the Legislature of this State by their reso
lutions passed in the years one Thousand Seven hundred
and Eighty three, and Eighty four relieved from the
pains and penalties of Banishment as directed by this
State, for inflicting the pains of Banishment and Confisca
tion on persons therein named and directed, that the
Names of the following persons should be taken from the

612 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

Act of Confiscation and placed on the Amercement. Act.
and that such amercement should not exceed twelve per
centum. AND WHEREAS the Present Legislature have

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agreed, to take others in the like situation from off the
said Act of attainder. Viz1 And rev," Johnston, Timothy
Barnard, Isaac Delyon, Alexander Carter, Alexander
Rose., and William Durgan —

BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the Representatives of
the Freemen of the State of Georgia in General Assem
bly met and it is hereby enacted, by the Authority of the
same, that Thomas Young, Raymond Demere Junior,
John Glen, Levi Sheftall, Thomas Gibbons, Isaac Heaton,
Isaac Downie Thomas Beatty, Robert Porteous, James
Spalding Alexander Creighton, Andrew Johnston, Tim
othy Barnard, Isaac Delyon, Alexander Carter, and
Alexander Rose, be and they are hereby severally re
lieved from the pains of the said Act of Confiscation and
Banishment.

BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED, by the Authority afore
said that the Estates both real and personal, of the said
Thomas Young, Raymond Demere, Junior, John Glen
Levi Sheftal, Thomas Gibbons, Isaac Heaton, Isaac
Downie Thomas Beatty, Robert. Porteous James Spald
ing, Alexander Creighton, Alexander Rose & Isaac Del
yon. are hereby Annexed and made subject to twelve
per centum and that Andrew Johnston, Alexander Car
ter, and William Durgan shall be subject to pay one per-
centum only as an amercement on such property as they
may possess, and that Timothy Barnard be subject, only
to one quarter percentum the same to be paid within
twelve Months to the Treasurer, or Commissioners of
Confiscated Estates for the use of this State (all persons
neglecting to pay the same in the the time limited shall
be liable to pay double that sum to be paid in Specie and
nothing else.

AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED by the Authority afore-

APPENDIX. 613

said that the said Thomas Young, Raymond Demere,
Junior John Glen, Levi Sheftall, Thomas Gibbons Isaac
Heaton, Isaac Downie, Thomas Beatty, Robert Porteous
James Spalding Alexander Creighton, Andrew Johnston
Timothy Barnard, Isaac Delyon, Alexander Rose, shall
return, to enjoy and Possess every right of Citizenship
in this State, any thing in the said Act of Confiscation
to the contrary notwithstanding provided always that the
said Thomas Young, Raymond Demere, Junior John
Glen, Levi Sheftall, Thomas Gibbons, Robert Porteous,
James Spalding Alexander Creighton Andrew Johnston,
Isaac Delyon, and Alexander Rose, shall not be permit
ted to Vote at elections, hold Offices under the Govern
ment, or he eligible to a Seat in any of the departments
thereof until fourteen years shall have elapsed, from the
passing of this Act, and provided also that Thomas Gib
bons shall not plead or practise in the Courts of Law of
this State, for the said term of Fourteen Years.

AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED that all Supplies that
have been taken from the above mentioned persons for
the use of the Army or payment of any of the Soldiers
shall be brought in charge against this or the United
States.

AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, by the Authority
aforesaid that John Mulryn and Solomon Kemp, two
persons named in the said Act of Banishment, shall be
and they are hereby permitted to be and remain in this
State, for and during the term of Seven Years without
molestation or injury in respect to their persons for or
on Account of the said Act, -- and all and singular the
Estate real and Personal, of the said Solomon Kemp
which now remains unsold ; by the Commissioners of
forfeited Estates shall be and the same is hereby gra
tuitously given to and vested in the Wife and Children
of the said Solomon Kemp, for and notwithstanding the
said Act of Confiscation or other matter or thing apper
taining the same, such property so given to the said Wife

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614 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

and Children of the said Solomon Kemp to be neverthe
less subject and liable to a proportionable part of any
Debts he may owe, provided neverthe — less that for all
Property real and Personal heretofore belonging to any
of the persons aforesaid that has been sold, by virtue
of the Act of Confiscation and Attainder the Auditor
shall and he is hereby required to give such person the
former owner of the said Property a. Certificate for a
Sum equal to the amount of the sale of such Property —

AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, by the Authority
aforesaid, that it shall and may be lawful for any Citi
zen of this or any of the United States, to purchase and
bring into this State and thereafter to hold, any Negroe
or other Slave, the property of any person named in the
Act of Confiscation and Banishment, provided- such
Negroe or other Slave has not been sold by the Commis
sioners of Confiscated Estates and was without the limits
of this State at the time such purchase, was made, any
thing in the Act. of Confiscation to the contrary not
withstanding.

AND WHEREAS William Welscher, Malcolm Ross,
James Ferrie Donald McLeod, William Thompson, John
Milne, and David Leion, come within the Proviso of the
Alien Act, having applied for the rights of Citizenship
previous to the passing thereof. BE IT THEREFORE
ENACTED that from and immediately after the passing
this Act the said William Welscher, Malcolm Ross,
David Leion James Ferrie, Donald McLeod, William
Thompson, and John Milne shall be and they are hereby
declared, Free Citizens of this State, any thing in the
said Alien Act, to the contrary thereof Notwithstand
ing.

By Order of the House

JOSEPH HABERSHAM
Speaker —

Savannah |

2 1*1: February 1785 j

APPENDIX. 615

(From State Archives.)
AN ACT

To -epeal an Act entitled an "Act for inflicting penal
ties on and confiscating the Estates of such persons as
are therein declared guilty of Treason and for other
purposes therein mentioned" so far as the same relates
to the banishment of Simon Munro.

WHEREAS this Legislature have been petitioned by
divers persons Citizens of this State, and residing in
the County of Liberty praying that Simon Munro may be
permitted to return to his family and friends, and this
Legislature ever willing to comply with the wishes of
their Constituents when the same is consistant with the
good of the Republic Do enact AND BE IT EN
ACTED by the Representatives of the Freemen of the
State of Georgia in general Assembly met and by the
Authority of the same, that the Act intitled an "Act for
inflicting penalties on and confiscating the Estates of
such persons as are therein declared guilty of Treason,
and for other purposes therein mentioned" passed the
fourth day of May one thousand Seven hundred and
eighty two, so far as the same relates to the Banishment
only of the said Simon Munro be and the same is hereby
repealed,

AXD BE IT FURTHER ENACTED that all and every part
and parts of the said Act relating or belonging to the
Heirs, devisees, and assigns of John Forbes deceased, be
and is hereby repealed and that all Bonds for any part
of the property sold of the said John Forbes be given
up by the Treasurer to the Heir or Heirs.
By order of the House.

WM GIBBONS Speaker.

Augusta 13th
Feb7. i ~86

616 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

(State Archives.)

An act for taking certain persons out of the act of confis
cation and banishment., as far as respects the banish
ment of of the persons therein named, and other pur
poses therein mentioned.

1. WHEREAS the legislature of this state by an act
passed the fourth day of May one thousand seven hun
dred and eighty-two, at Augusta, entitled "An act for
confiscating and banishing certain persons therein men
tioned," did confiscate the estate and banish the person
of Philip Delegal jun. also did confiscate of John
M'Donald, his heirs devisees and assigns. And whereas
the present legislature have agreed to take the said Philip
Delegal, and the heirs devisees and assigns of John
M'Donald, out of the said act of confiscation and banish
ment so far as it respects the banishment of said Philip
Delegal, and the heirs, devisees and assigns of John
M'Donald. Be it therefore enacted by the representatives
of the freemen of the state of Georgia in General Assem-
sembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the
same That Philip Delegal, and the heirs devisees and as
signs of John M'Donald, be, and they are hereby severally
relieved, from the pains of the said act of confiscation
and banishment, so far as respects the banishment of the
said Philip Delegal, and the heirs, devisees and assigns
of John M'Donald.

2. And be it fnrtlicr enacted by the antJioritv afore
said, That the property both real and personal of the
said Philip Delegal, and said John M'Donald, his heirs,
devisees and assigns, that has remained unsold by the
commissioners of confiscated estates, under the act of
confiscation and banishment, shall be theirs to all intents
and purposes, any thing contained in the act of confisca
tion and banishment to the contrary notwithstanding.

APPENDIX. 617

3. And be it further enacted, That Thomas Gibbons,
Patrick Crookshanks and Alexander Spears, of the
county of Chatham, esqrs. John Glynn, James Spalding,
Thomas Young. Levy Sheftall, George Barnes and John
Taylor, be and they are hereby admitted to all the rights
and privileges of free citizens of this state, any law to the
contrary notwithstanding.

4. And be it further enacted by the authority afore
said, That the act of confiscation and banishment, so far
as relates to the banishment of Abraham Mincey, John
Corker, John Fox, and William Jones, be and the same
is hereby repealed.

5. And whereas there are debts due, and property
which remain unsold, belonging to the estate of Thomas
Fleming, deceased, and application has been made to this
house by Mary Fleming, widow of the said Thomas
Fleming, to vest such debts and property in her. Be it
enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all debts due
to the said estate, and property which remains unsold, be
vested in the said Mary Fleming for the use of herself,
her heirs and assigns forever.

By order of the House,

WILLIAM GIBBONS, Speaker.
Augusta, February 10, 1787.

(State Archives.)

An act for vesting certain property in Philip Hornby, in
right of his wife, Henrietta Hornby, formerly Henri
etta Goldsmith, widow of Thomas Goldsmith, deceased,
a person named in the act of confiscation and banish
ment.

618 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

1. WHEREAS the said Philip Hornby in the year one
thousand seven hundred and eighty-three, by his petition
preferred to the legislature of this state, prayed that his
wife Henrietta Hornby, formerly widow of Thomas
Goldsmith, deceased, who is named in the act of confis
cation and banishment, might have some support from the
estate of the said deceased, and it appearing by the reso
lution of the House of Assembly, one thousand seven hun
dred and eighty-five, that a bill should be passed vesting
all the property formerly belonging to the said
Thomas Goldsmith, which remains unsold by the com
missioners of confiscated estates, in the said Philip Horn
by, he being answerable for all damages that may be
brought against the said Thomas Goldsmith, and giving
bond to his honour the governor, for the time being, in
a sufficient sum indemnifying the state against all such
demands.

Be it therefore enacted by the representatives of the
freemen of the state of Georgia;, in General Assembly met,
and by the authority of the same. That all the estate
real and personal of the said Thomas Goldsmith, deceased,
that remains unsold by the commissioners of confiscated
estates, shall be, and the same is hereby declared to be
vested in the said Philip Hornby, to hold the same to
him, his heirs and assigns forever, any thing contained in
the said act of confiscation to the contrary notwithstand
ing: Provided always, and it is hereby declared, That
the said Philip Hornby shall be, and is hereby made liable
to answer for payment oi all debts and damages that may
be due by, or recoverable against the estate of the said
Thomas Goldsmith, and so far as such estate herein
vested shall extend, and no further.

2. And be it futher enacted, That the said Philip
Hornby shall, within twelve months, give bond to his

APPENDIX. 619

honor the governor for the time being, in such sum of
money as may be sufficient to indemnify this state against
all claims or demands against the estate of the said
Thomas Goldsmith, confiscated as aforesaid.

3. And be it further enacted, That this act shall be
deemed and taken in law as a public act, and as such re
ceived as evidence in any court in this state.

By order of the House,

WILLIAM GIBBONS, Speaker.
Augusta, icth February, 1787.

(State Archives.)

An a-ct for vesting the estates., real and personal, unsold,
of Henry Sharp and Matthew Moore, in the hands of
their respective children.

i. WHEREAS in and by a certain act of the legislature,
passed and dated at Augusta on the fourth day of May,
in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and
eighty-two, commonly called the confiscation act, the
property real and personal of the said Henry Sharp and
Matthew Moore, their heir?, devisees and assigns, was
respectively confiscated to and for the use and benefit
of the said state : And whereas a part of the estate of
the said Henry Sharp and Matthew Moore remains un
sold : Be it therefore enacted by the representatives of
the freemen of the State of Georgia in General Assembly
met, and b\ the authority of the same, That from and
immediately after the passing of this act, the
children of the said Henry Sharp and Matthew
Moore, respectively, shall be fully and absolutely
entitled to share and share alike to all such

«20 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

parts of the estates real and personal of the said
Henry Sharp and Matthew Moore, as have not already
been sold under and by virtue of the said act of confis
cation : Provided always nevertheless, That the guar
dian, trustee or attorney of such respective children do
and shall give bond in the secretary's office for the pay
ment of the due proportion of such debts as may appear
against the estate of the said Henry Sharp and Matthew
Moore, their heirs, devisees and assigns, and such prop
erty as remains unsold shall, previously to their taking
possession, be valued by three freeholders qualified for
that purpose, and a certificate of such appraisement shall
be forwarded to the auditor, certified by a justice of the
peace.

By order of the House,

WILLIAM GIBBONS, Speaker.
Augusta, loth February, 1/87.

(State Archives.)

An act for repealing certain parts of the act of confisca
tion and banishment.

i. WHEREAS the legislature of this state, by an act
passed the fourth day of May one thousand seven hun
dred and eighty-two, at Augusta, entitled "An act for
confiscation and banishing certain persons therein men
tioned," did confiscate the property of Nathaniel Polhill,
his heirs, devisees and assigns, and the property of Pol-
hill Cormick, John Thomas, Peter Edwards, and James
Butler, and did banish the said persons from this state;
Be it enacted That as far as the said act of confiscation
respects Nathaniel Polhill, his heirs, devisees and assigns,
be and is hereby repealed.

APPENDIX. 621

2.. And be it further enacted by the authority afore
said, That one half of the estate of Nathaniel Polhill,
unsold by the commissioners of confiscated property, be
vested in Elizabeth Nowland, widow of the said Na
thaniel Polhill, and her heirs.

3. And be it further enacted, That the property of
the said John Thomas, which remains unsold, be, and it is
hereby vested in Elizabeth Sharp, the wife of John Sharp,
jun. and the property of Paul M'Cormick, which remains
unsold, be, and it is hereby vested in Frances M'Cor
mick and her heirs.

4. And be it further enacted, That as far as the
aforesaid act of confiscation and banishment, respecting
the banishment of the aforesaid Peter Edwards, and
James Butler, James Jackson, John Douglass, William
Corker, James Ingraham, Thomas Waters and John
Johnson, be. and is hereby repealed.

By order of the House,

NATHAN BROWNSON, Speaker.

February I, 1788.

(State Archives.)
An act to rest certain property in Anne Stewart.

i. WHEREAS by an act passed the tenth day of Feb
ruary one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, the
property formerly belonging to Thomas Goldsmith, jun.
a person named in the act of confiscation and banish
ment, was vested in Philip Hornby, who had married the
widow of the said Goldsmith. And ivhcreas some doubts
have arisen about the extent and operation of the afore
said act, passed the tenth day of February one thousand

622

seven hundred and eighty-seven. Be it enacted, that the
said law shall not be construed to extend to any rever
sionary property, or remainder of which the said Gold
smith was not seized or possessed, and of which he was de
barred of being- seized and possessed by the aforesaid
act of confiscation and banishment.

2. And be it further enacted, That a certain prop
erty which was conveyed to Hannah Goldsmith, mother
of the said Thomas Goldsmith, during her life, and which
would have reverted, or remained over to the said Thom
as Goldsmith, had he not been prevented from inheriting
the said reversion or remainder by the aforesaid act of
confiscation and banishment, shall vest and be forever
fixed in Anne Stuart, daughter of Alexander Stuart, at
the death of the said Hannah Goldsmith.

By order of the House,

NATHAN BROWNSON, Speaker.
February i, 1788.

(State Archives.)

An act to vest certain property in Rachel Johnston and her
children.

i. WHEREAS Rachel Johnston, the widow of Joseph
Johnston deceased, a person named in the act of confisca
tion and banishment, hath applied to the legislature by
petition, praying that the property of the said Joseph
Johnston, which remained unsold may be relinquished by
the state, and given up to the said Rachel Johnston for
the support of herself and children. And whereas the
legislature hath granted the petition of the aforesaid
Rachel.

APPENDIX. 623

Be it therefore enacted by the Senate and house of rep
resentatives of the state of Georgia in General Assembly
met, That all property both real and personal, which re
mains unsold by the commissioners of confiscated estates,
which of right may appertain to the estate of the said
Joseph Johnston deceased, be, and the same is hereby
declared to be relinquished and given up on the part of
the state to the aforesaid Rachel Johnston, for the sup
port of herself and children; always subjecting such
estate so relinquished and given up, to the payment of
all debts and dues which may be clue and owing from fhe
same.

SEABORN JONES, Speaker of the House of

Represen tatives.

NATHAN BROWNSON, President of the Senate.
Concurred, December 8, 1789.
EDWARD TELFAIR, Governor.

(State Archives.)

An act to repeal an act entitled, "An act for inflicting
penalties on, and confiscating the estates of such per
sons as are therein declared guilty of treason, and for
other purposes therein mentioned," so far as respects
the banishment of Doctor Thomas Taylor, Absolom
IV ells, Cordy Sharp, Benjamin Pox, William Poivel
and John Johnson.

i. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and House of Rep
resentatives of the state of Georgia, in General Assem
bly met, That the act entitled, "An act for inflicting
penalties on, and confiscating the estates of such persons
as are therein declared guilty of treason, and for other
purposes therein mentioned." passed the fourth day of

624 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

May, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two, so
far as respects the banishment only of the persons of
the said Doctor Thomas Taylor, Absalom Wells, Cordy
Sharp, Benjamin Fox, William Powel and John John
son be, and the same is hereby repealeed.

WILLIAM GIBBONS Speaker,
NATHAN BROWNSON, President of the Senate.
Concurred December 8, 1791.
EDWARD TELFAIR, Governor.

(State Archives.)

An act for tJie relief of the heirs and representatives of
Alexander Inglis deceased.

i WHEREAS the General Assembly of this state by
their concurrent resolutions, on the tenth day of Decem
ber, one thousand seven hundred and ninety, did declare
that the said Alexander Inglis should be admitted to all
the rights of citizenship in this State, which said resolu
tions require an act of the General Assembly to carry
them into effect. And whereas the said Alexander In
glis hath since departed this life, and his heirs and repre
sentatives have not received the benefits intended by the
said resolutions : Be it therefore enacted by the Senate
and House of Representatives of the state of Georgia in
General Assembly met, That all the estate, real and per
sonal of the said Alexander Inglis in this state, which
he was entitled to in law or equity, prior to the fourth
day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven
hundred and eighty-two, or at any time since, except
such as may have been sold by the commissioners of con
fiscated estates, be, and the same is hereby vested in the

APPENDIX. 625

children of the said Alexander Inglis, share and share
alike, in the same manner, and under the same rules of
law, as if the said Alexander Inglis had departed this
life in the state of Georgia intestate, and as if the said
Alexander Inglis had not been named, comprehended or
included in the aforesaid act of confiscation.

2. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may
be lawful for the executors of the said Alexander Inglis,
or the guardians of the said minors, children of the said
Alexander Inglis, to recover and receive the property
of the aforesaid Alexander Inglis, intended to be herein
and hereby vested in the said minors : the act entitled,
"An act for inflicting penalties on, and for confiscating
the estates of such persons as therein declared guilty of
treason, and for other purposes therein mentioned," to
the contrary thereof in any wise notwithstanding.

WILLIAM GIBBONS, Speaker of the House of
Rep-resen ta fives.

BENJAMIN TALIAFERRO, President of the
Senate.

Concurred December 8, 1792.
EDWARD TELEAIR, Governor.

(State Archives.)

An act for the relief cf John Furloiv, one of the persons
named in the act of confiscation and banishment.

i. WHEREAS the legislature of this state, by an act
passed the forth day of May, in the year of our Lord
one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two, at Augusta,
entitled, "An act for inflicting penalties on, and confis
cating the estates of such persons as therein declared

626 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

guilty of treason, and for other purposes therein men
tioned," did confiscate the estate of, and banish the per
son of a certain John Furlow, then late of the county of
Richmond : Be it enacted, by the Senate and House of
Representatives of Georgia, in General Assembly met,
That the said John Furlow be, and he is hereby relieved
from the pains and penalties of the aforesaid act, so far
as the same respects the banishment only of the said
John Furlow.

THOMAS NAPIER, Speaker of the House of
Representatives.

BENJAMIN TAUAEERRO, President of the
Senate.

Concurred December 25, 1794.
GEORGE MATHEWS, Governor.

(State Archives.)

An act, to repeal the act entitled "An act for in
flicting penalties on, and confiscating the estates
of such persons as are therein declared guilty of
treason, and for other purposes therein men
tioned," passed the twenty-second day of May
one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two,
as far as respects the representatives of Donald
M'Lcod, deceased, George Weekly and Thomas
Waters.

i. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the state of Georgia in General As
sembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of
the same, That so much of the said recited law, so far
as respects the representatives of Donald M'Leod, be,
and the same is hereby repealed, and all property what-

APPENDIX. 627

soever which was vested in the said Donald M'Leod, at
any time before the passing of such law, and which yet
remains unsold, be as absolutely vested in his representa
tives, as if no such law had passed.

2.. And be it further enacted, That so much of the
said law as respects the banishment of George Weekly
and Thomas Waters, be and the same is hereby repealed.
But this act shall not extend, or be construed to extend
to restore any property of the said persons, actually sold
by the commissioners of confiscated property.

THOMAS NAPIER, Speaker of the House of
Representatives.

BENJAMIN TALIAEERRO, President of the
Senate.

Concurred December 29, 1794.
GEORGE MATHEWS, Governor.

(State A rch ivcs.)

Am act for the relief of the heirs of Simon
Munro, Deceased.

i. WHEREAS capt. Harry Munro, late a British sub
ject, died vested of real estate, in this state, and did by
his will bearing date the I4th day of November, in the
year 1780, leave the same to the heirs of Simon Monro,
late of this state deceased, who are citizens of the United
States : Be it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the state of Georgia in General As
sembly met, and by the authority of the same, That from
and immediately after the passing of this act, the real
estate of the said Harry Monro, late a British subject,
which has not been sold under, and by virtue of the act

628 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

of confiscation, is hereby declared to be vested in the
heirs of Simon Monro, late of this state, deceased.

DAVID MERIWETHER, Speaker of the House

of Representatives.

DAVID EMANUEL, President of the Senate.
Concurred February 8, 1797.
JARED IRWIN, Governor.

(State Archives.)

An act to repeal an act, entitled "An act for in
flicting penalties on and confiscating the estates
of such persons as are therein declared guilty
of treason and for other purposes therein men
tioned," so far as relates to the banishment of
Willia^n Oates and John Henderson.

i. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the state of Georgia, in General As
sembly met, That the act entitled "An act for inflicting
penalties on ajid confiscating the estates of such persons
as are therein declared guilty of treason, and for other
purposes therein mentioned," passed the fourth day of
May, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two, so
far as relates to the banishment only of William Oates
and John Henderson, be, and the same is hereby re
pealed. And that the said William Oates and John
Henderson, be and they are hereby restored to all the
rights of citizenship. Provided, That they shall not be
entitled to claim, hold, or recover property sold under
the said act, formerly belonging to the said William
Oates and John Henderson.

DAVID MERIWETHER, Speaker of the House
of Representatives.

DAVID EMANUEL, President of the Senate.
Concurred February 10, 1797.

APPENDIX. 629

(State Archives.)

An act to repeal an act, entitled, "An act for in
flicting penalties on certain persons therein
named," so far as respects the banishment of
John Johnson.

i. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the state of Georgia, in General As
sembly met, That the act entitled "An act, for inflicting
penalties on, and confiscating the estates of such persons
as are therein declared guilty of treason and for other
purposes therein mentioned," passed the fourth day of
May, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two, so
far as respects the banishment only of the person of John
Johnson, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

DAVID MERI WETHER, Speaker of the House of
Represen tatives.

ROBERT WALTON, President of the Senate.
Assented to February 7, 1799.
JAMES JACKSON, Governor.

(State Archives.)

An act to grant certain privileges to Enoch
James, and others, the legal representatives of
William Dargan, late -of Burke county, de
ceased.

i. BE IT ENACTED by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the state of Georgia, in General As
sembly met, and by the authority of the same, That
Enoch James, and all others, the legal heirs and repre
sentatives of William Durgan, late of Burke county de-

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630 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

ceased, one of the persons named in the act of confisca
tion, be and they are hereby vested, in fee simple of all
and singular, the goods rights and chattels, which were
confiscated as the property of the aforesaid Durgan, so
far as relates to the personal property, confiscated as
aforesaid, and which doth now remain undisposed of by
the state, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

DAVID MERI WETHER, Speaker of the House of

R epresen tatives.

DAVID EMANUEI/, President of the Senate.
Assented to November 25, 1800.
JAMES JACKSON, Governor.

(State Archives.)

An act to repeal an act for inflicting penal
ties on certain persons therein named, so far as
respects the punishment of Christopher Frederic
Triebner.

i. BE IT ENACTED, by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the state of Georgia in General As
sembly met, That the act entitled "An act for inflicting
penalties on, and confiscating the estates of such persons
as are therein declared guilty of treason, and for other
purposes therein mentioned," passed the fourth day of
May, one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two, so
far as it respects the banishment only of the person of
Christopher Frederic Triebner, be, and the same is here
by repealed.

DAVID MERIWETHER, Speaker of the House of

Representatives.

DAVID EMANUEL, President of the Senate.
Assented to December 5, 1800.

JAMES JACKSON, Governor.

APPENDIX. 631

(State Archives.)
AN ACT

To repeal an Act, entitled "An Act for inflicting

penalties on, and confiscating the Estates of
such persons as is therein declared guilty of
Treason, and for other purposes therein men
tioned," so far as respects the banishment of
Thomas Skinner, and John A. Frymout.

BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa
tives of the state of Georgia, in General Assembly met,
That the Act for inflicting penalties on, and confiscating
the Estates of such persons as are therein declared guilty
of Treason, and for other purposes therein mentioned,
passed the fourth day of May, one thousand seven hun
dred and eighty-two, so far as relates to the banishment
of Thomas Skinner, and John A. Frymout, be and the
same is hereby repealed.

DAVID MERIWETHER, Speaker of the House of

Representatives.

WILLIAM BARNETT, President of the Senate.
Assented to December i, 1801.

JOSIAH TATTNALL, Jun.
Governor.

(State Archives.)
AN ACT

To amend an Act, entitled "an Act inflicting
penalties on and confiscating the Estates of such
persons, as are therein declared guilty of Trea-

632 REVOLUTIONARY RECORDS.

son, and for other purposes therein mentioned"
so far as relates to the banishment of Josiah
Tattnall

BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa
tives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met,
That the Act, entitled "An Act for inflicting penalties
on, and confiscating the Estates of such persons as are
therein declared guilty of Treason, and for other pur
poses therein mentioned,'' passed the fourth day of May
one thousand seven hundred and eighty-two, so far as
relates to the banishment of Josiah Tattnall, be and the
same is hereby repealed; and that the said Josiah Tatt
nall, be and he is hereby restored to all the rights of
citizenship, with full liberty to remove into this state,
with the property he may be now possessed of subject to
his sole and entire future disposal: — Provided, That
he shall not be entitled to claim, hold or recover property,
sold under the above recited Act, formerly belonging to
the said Josiah Tattnall.

DAVID MERIWETHER, Speaker of the House of
Representatives.

WiUviAM BARNETT, President of the Senate.

With lively impressions of gratitude, I affix
my signature to this Act, the 4th of Decem
ber, 1801.

JOSIAH TATTNAL^ Jun.
Governor.

(State Archives.)
AN ACT

To repeal an act entitled "An act for inflicting
penalties on, and confiscating the estates of such

APPENDIX. '633

persons a(s are therein declared guilty of treason,
and for other purposes therein mentioned, so
far as relates to the banishment of John Boykin,
sen'r.

Sec. i. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of
Representatives of the state of Georgia, in General As
sembly met, and by the authority of the same, That so
much of the before recited act as respects the banishment
of John Boykin, sen'r, of Scriven county, be, and the
same is hereby repealed.

ABRAHAM JACKSON, Speaker of the House of
Represen tatives.

JARED IRWIN, President of the Senate.
Assented to, December 5, 1805.
JOHN MiLivEDGE, Governor.

INDEX.

Accounts, public, Captains Martin and Stirk to examine, 108.
Acock, Richard, purchases confiscated land of Wm. Manson, 572.
Acts of Parliament in violation of rights of colonies enumerated, 52.
Adams, Edward, commissioned as Lieutenant, 189.
Adams, Nathaniel and others, appointed Commissioners of White

Bluff Road, 163.
Adams, Robert, purchases confiscated land of James Butler, and of

Roger Kelsall, 490.
Alexander, James, commissioned as 3d Lieutenant, 160; appointed

ist Lieutenant of Artillery, 213.

Allison, Capt. Henry, confiscated negroes delivered to, 606.
Amercement, certain persons subjected to, 611.
Anarchy in Georgia, a period of, 398; causes of, 399.
Andrew, Benjamin, takes oath as Justice of Peace, 128; appointed

Magistrate, 149; member of first Executive Council, 306.
Andrew, Benjamin, Sr., purchases confiscated half lot and house of

Henderson, 466.
Andrew, Benjamin, purchases confiscated land of Lewis Johnston

and of Thomas Young, 484.
Appendix, 609.
Arms and ammunition, committee appointed to secure, 82; money

provided to pay for, 85.
Articles of Association, persons who decline to sign to be reported

to the General Committee, 253.

Artillery, two companies of to be raised for garrisoning forts, 197.
Atkerson, Joseph, commissioned as Captain, 150.
Attorneys at law who obey regulations of Provincial Congress to be

stricken from roll by Chief Justice, 79.
Augusta, inhabitants of dissent to action of August meeting, 29;

names of dissenters, 30; Indian disturbances near, 155; taken

by patriots and legislature convened, 410; confiscated land in

Richmond and Burke Counties sold at, 582.

(635)

636 INDEX.

Augusta, town and district of, to elect delegate to Provincial Con
gress, 118; orders for new election in revoked, 121.
Ayers, Abraham, appointed Justice of Peace, 143.

B

Bacon, John, ST., to be commissioned as ist Lieutenant, 91.

Bacon, Thomas, to be commissioned 3d Lieutenant, 91.

Bailley, Thomas, purchases confiscated lot in Sunbury, 494.

Baillie, George, going at large dangerous to American liberties, 146;
permitted to .remove to his own house, 162 ; petition of con
cerning negroes of Clement Martin, deceased, 190.

Baker, Colonel, to hire negroes to complete entrenchments about
Sunbury, 136.

Baker, John, Sr., appointed Magistrate, 149.

Baker, John, to be commissioned as Captain, 91 ; takes oath as Jus
tice of Peace, 128.

Baker, John, commissioner to sell confiscated estates, 414; purchases
confiscated property on Great Ogechee, 452 ; purchases confis
cated lot of Simon Munroe and confiscated land of Roger Kel-
sall, 492.

Baker, William, Sr., to be commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, 91.

Baker, William, officer of St. John's riflemen, powder furnished
to, 93.

Banished persons remaining in the State over sixty days to be ar
rested and sent to some part of the British king's dominions,
387; persons returning to the State after transportation to suf
fer death without benefit of clergy, 388.

Barnard, Timothy, relieved from penalty of confiscation and ban
ishment, 612; permitted to return and estate of amerced, 613.

Barnes, George, rights of citizenship granted to, 617.

Barnet, Nathan, purchases confiscated land of Abm. Wilkins, 574.

Baulch, Thomas, appointed Magistrate, 149.

Beal, Jacob, appointed Justice of Peace, 142.

Beale, Jeremiah, commissioned as ist Lieutenant, 72.

Beale, Zephaniah, commissioned as 3d Lieutenant, 72.

Beatty, Thomas, relieved from penalty of confiscation and banish
ment, 612; permitted to return and estate of amerced, 613.

Beecroft, Doctor, purchases confiscated land of Collin Campbell, 438.

Begby, Alexander, going at large dangerous to American liberties,
146.

Belcher, William, qualifies as Justice of Peace, 156; prefers charges
against Wm. Love and Chas. Hall, 156; chosen member of
Board instead of James Scriven, 209.

INDEX. 63T

Bickham, Abner, purchases confiscated cattle of Samuel Love and
James Llyle, 538.

Bird, Israel, commissioned as ist Lieutenant, 95; commissioned as
Captain, 149.

Black, James, appointed Magistrate, 149.

Blunt, Jacob, commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, 72.

Boiakin, Francis, purchases confiscated land of George Johnston, 534.

Bonnell, Daniel, appointed Magistrate, 149.

Bonner, Robert, commissioned as Captain, 220.

Bonner, Robert, purchases confiscated lots of Jno. Graham and L.
McGillivray, 564.

Bostick, Chesley, purchases confiscated land of Jas. Seymour, 558;
land of J. Jemison and Jas. Seymore, and a pair of mill stones,
confiscated property of Jas. Seymore, 576.

Bostick, Littleberry, purchases confiscated land of John Henderson,
592.

Bounty provided for those who enlist for three years, 198.

Bowen, Captain, authorized to contract for armed vessels, 191 ; au
thorized to purchase arms and ammunition, 192 ; to purchase
materials for building vessels and galleys, 192; to be furnished
with copy of Declaration of Independence, 192.

Box, Philip and William Gibbons, receipt of for money advanced
to, 109.

Boykin, John, Sr., sentence of banishment revoked, 633.

Boys, Alexander, commissioned as Lieutenant, 186.

Brig Beufort, Gen. Mclntosh to take sails of to prevent her sailing,
217.

Brisbane, Adam Fowler, takes oath as Justice of Peace, 130.

Brownson, Nathan, takes seat as member of Council, 146 ; qualifies
as Justice of Peace, 166 ; elected Governor, 410.

Brownson, Doctor, and Jonathan Cochrane, a committee to take
security from Capt. Samuel Miller, 184.

Bryan, Jonathan, takes oath as Justice of Peace, 128; to be fur
nished presents for Indians, 161 ; member of first Executive
Council, 306.

Bryan, Jonathan, and Nathan Brownson, a committee to answer
enquiry of Gen. Lee, 180; their answer, 180.

Bryan, Jonathan, Houstoun and Col. L. Mclntosh, sent to Charles-
town, 139.

Bryan, Capt. William, ordered to return private property to Doug
lass, 169.

Bryan, William, chosen member of Council instead of Daniel Rob
erts, 209.

638 INDEX.

Buchannan, John, confiscated negroes of Jas. Seymore delivered to,

605.

Bugg, Sherred, confiscated negroes of Jas. Seymore delivered to, 605.
Bugg, Sherwood, not recognized as chairman of Committee at Au
gusta, 161.

Bugg, William, commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, 72.

Bulloch, Archibald, elected delegate to Continental Congress, 43.

Bulloch, Archibald, President of Georgia, address of Council of
Safety to, 114; reply of, to address of Council of Safety, 116;
proclamation of against extortion, 120; proclamation of con
vening Provincial Congress, 126; reply of to Capt. Woodruffe's
enquiry, 141 ; instructions of to Col. Lachlan Mclntosh, 206 ;
elected President of Provincial Congress, 231 ; elected to Con
tinental Congress, 240; elected President and Commander-in-
Chief of Georgia, 277; congratulatory address of Council of
Safety to, 277; reply of to same, 278; proclamation of offering
land bounty to those who enlist for the defense of this State,
279; proclamation of ordering election of delegates to frame
a constitution, 280; proclamation of concerning turbulent ne
groes in and about Savannah, 298 ; proclamation of forbidding
sale of liquors without license, 299; proclamation of appointing
a day of fasting and humiliation, 304; death of, 305.

Bunnell, Daniel, commissioned as Captain, 168.

Burch, William, confiscated negro delivered to, 604.

Burke County, confiscated cattle in, 546.

Burr, Moody, commissioned as 1st Lieutenant, 220.

Burton, Thomas, appointed Magistrate, 149; certain negroes to be
delivered to, 157; appointed executor of Wm. McDaniel, de
ceased, 158.

Butler. Elisha, elected President of Council of Safety, 105.

Butler, James, and Dr. Chas. Yonge not to be admitted on Rosedew
Plantation, 163 ; warrant to be issued for arrest of, 166 ; ask to
be heard by board, 168; released from custody upon taking
oath, 171.

Butler, James, forbidden to go on Rosedew Plantation, 171 ; peti
tion of, 187.

Butler, James, sentence of banishment revoked, 621.

Butler, Shem, ordered to permit Mr. Croker to have house, 161 ;
matters concerning represented to the Board, 162 ; attends the
Board, 163.

INDEX. 639

Call, the first for meeting of citizens looking to organized resistance,
II ; copy of call published in Gazette, 11; signed by Noble W.
Jones, Archibald Bulloch, John Houstoun and George Walton,
IT.

Call, Richard, purchases confiscated land of George Kingcade and
of Sir James Wright, 424.

Candler, William, appointed Justice of Peace, 143.

Candler, Colonel, ordered to hold his command in readiness to
march wherever services may be needed, 159; ammunition is
sued to, 159.

Candler, William, purchases confiscated land of John Howard, 572.

Cannon, Roger, purchases confiscated land of Edward Ashton, 566.

Carter, Alexander, relieved from penalty of confiscation and ban
ishment, 612 ; permitted to return and estate of amerced, 613.

Carter, Hepworth, commissioned as 3d Lieutenant, 117.

Carter, Hipworth, purchases confiscated land of James Westley, 498.

Carter, Thomas, commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 220.

Cartledge, Edwd., appointed Justice of Peace, 143.

Carey, Mr., sent to St. Augustine to demand Capt. Woodruffe and
other prisoners, 223.

Cater, Thomas, purchases confiscated land of Roger Kelsall, 400.

Cattle on island to be taken for use of troops, 193 ; owners of to
remove them to mainland, otherwise they will be destroyed, 193.

Certificates of indebtedness, persons refusing to receive to be con
sidered enemies of the province, 252.

Chaplain, a, to be appointed for each regiment, 197.

Charlestown Committee, reply of to St. John's Committee, 61.

Charlestown, letter from Council of Safety at, 76.

Cherokee Hill, inhabitants of to do duty in Capt. Richard Wylly's
company, 141.

Chief Justice and two Assistant Justices, Attorney General, Provost
Marshal, etc., provided for, 276.

Chisolm, Thomas, member of first Executive Council, 306.

Chisolm, Thomas, purchases confiscated land of Wm. Reed and con
fiscated cattle of Mathew Llyle, 534.

Citizenship restored to certain persons, 611.

Clark, Elijah, purchases confiscated house and half lot of James
Alexander, 468; appointed commissioner to sell confiscated
estates, 504; purchases confiscated land of Joshua Pierce, 508.

Clay, Joseph, declines to take seat as member of Council of Safety,
70-

640 INDEX.

Clay, Joseph, purchases confiscated land of John J. Zubly; two lots
at Yamacraw, confiscated land of G. Fox, Sir James Wright,
Lachlan McGillivray, Thos. Wylly, 434; purchases confiscated
land of John Graham, 512.

Clay, O'Bryen & Howley, for Generals Greene & Wayne, purchase
confiscated land of Alexander Wright, John Graham and Sir
James Wright, 418.

Clements, John, commissioned as Lieutenant, 186.

Clements, John, purchases confiscated land of Robt. McCormick,
Samuel Douglass and Henry Younge, Jr., 596.

Cochrane, James, commissioned as 1st Lieutenant, 71.

Cochrane, Jonathan, takes oath as Justice of the Peace, 128; report
of concerning ways and means of supplying dry goods, 191.

Cockspur Island, cannon removed from, 94.

Cockspur, no person to visit British ships at, 194.

Coddington, Francis, Letters of Marque granted to, 199.

Coddington, Francis, purchases confiscated land of Thos. Goldsmith,
450.

Colcock, Job, appointed Magistrate, 149.

Coleman, Daniel, commissioner to sell confiscated estates, 414.

Coleman, John, member first Executive Council, 306.

Coleman, Reubeen, purchases confiscated land of Jas. Grierson, 592.

Collins, Cornelius, purchases confiscated land of Samuel Farley, 542.

Colonial laws of force, but no officers to enforce them, 274.

Colville, Capt. William, to be arrested and brought to Savannah, 91.

Commercial intercourse between Great Britain and American colo
nies prohibited, 273.

Commissioners of White Bluff Road appointed, 163.

Commissioners of Roads for St. Philip, 166.

Commissioners of forfeited estates appointed in each county, 332.

Committee appointed to draft resolution defining position of people
of Georgia, 12.

Committee appointed to obtain arms and ammunition reports, 84.

Committee sent to confer with Gen. Lee on state of colony reports,
ISO.

Committee on loading vessels reports, 178.

Committee of intelligence appointed, 243.

Committee appointed to report qualifications of voters, 254.

Committee appointed to consider militia laws, 256.

Commons House of Assembly, election of members of, 34; large
majority of members favorable to resistance, 34; address to, 34;
reply of to Governor, 36; resolutions adopted by, 48; protests
against legislative power in a Council appointed by the Crown,

INDEX. 641

51; conservative course of approved by all parish except St.
John, 54.

Confiscation of property of rebels ordered, 273.

Connell, William, appointed Adjutant, 167.

Constables, oath of, 133.

Constitutional Convention meets in Savannah the first Tuesday in
October, 1776, 282 ; Journal of lost, 282.

Constitution of 1777, 282; government, all power of, derived from
the people, 283 ; three departments of separate and distinct, 283 ;
Representatives in legislature, when and how elected, 283 ; elect
ed for one year only, 284; how distributed, 284; qualifications
of, 285; elected by ballot, 287; oath of, 288; must hold no
other office, Justice of Peace and officers of the militia excepted,
288 ; Governor, by whom and when elected, 283 ; ineligible for
more than one year out of three, 289; must reside at seat of
government, 289; oath of, 290; must have resided three years
in the State, 290; military title of, 292; House of Assembly,
shall expire and be at an end yearly, 284; power and duties of,
286; electors, qualification and duties of, 286; must vote in
county of residence, 287; oath of, 287; nobility disqualified,
287 ; - fine for neglecting to vote, 287 ; Congress, members of
elected annually, 288; members of ex officio members of the
legislature, 288; Governor and Executive Council, powers of,
289 ; President of Executive Council, oath of, 290 ; to exercise
powers of governor in certain cases, 291 ; Executive Council,
President of, his oath, 290; to elect its own officers, 290; to
examine all laws and ordinances, 291 ; how it proposes amend
ments, 291 ; may be sworn to secrecy, 291 ; oath of, 291 ; exec
utive power, continuation of, 292 ; transactions between legisla
tive and executive bodies, how carried on, 292 ; militia officers
to serve during good behavior, 292 ; militia divided into battal
ions, 292 ; Superior Courts established, 292 ; organization and
jurisdiction of, 293; cost and continuation of causes in, 295;
disputes, where tried, 293; criminals, ' where to be tried, 293;
jury, judges of law and fact, 294; special jury provided for, 294;
jurors, oath of, 294; grand jury to consist of not less than
eighteen, 295; Court of Conscience, its jurisdiction, 295; exe
cution, stay of, 295 ; officers accountable to House of Assembly,
295 ; records to be kept in every county, 295 ; estates not to be
entailed, 295 ; distribution of, 296 ; Register of Probates to be
appointed by the legislature in every county, 296 ; county officers,
except Register of Probates and Justice of Peace, elected by
the people, 296; free schools provided for, 296; court houses

642 INDEX.

and jails to be erected at expense of the State, 296; religion,
free exercise of, 296; Great Seal, device of, 296; attorneys at
law, licensed by the legislature, 297; fines, excessive, and ex
cessive bail prohibited, 297; habeas corpus, 297; freedom of the
press and trial by jury, 297; clergymen can not sit in the legis
lature, 297.

Constitution, how amended, 297.

Continental Battalion to consist of eight companies, 78.

Continental Congress, resolution of, 77; recommends arrest of per
sons unfriendly to the colonies, 93 ; recommends exportation of
produce for the purchase of arms, ammunition, sulphur and salt
petre, 93 ; proceedings of Provincial Congress to be forwarded
to, 242; preamble and resolutions adopted by on the loth July,
1775, 244; delegates from this State to ask that Georgia be in
corporated with the United Provinces of North America, 258.

Continental officers and enlisted men, pay of, 78.

Continental officers, pay of, 195.

Convention to convene on Tuesday I4th November, 212.

Conyers, Captain, and his Company ask pay for their services, 73 ;
to be paid, 74.

Cope, Lewis, purchases confiscated land of Christopher F. Triebner,
George Weekley and John J. Zubly, 506.

Corker, John, sentence of banishment revoked, 617.

Corker, William, sentence of banishment revoked, 621.

Council, the, members of under arrest to be released on parole,
102.

Council of Safety, the first, list of members of, 67; to keep up
correspondence with other provinces and with the Conti
nental Congress, 67; Journal of, 68; rules for government
of, /o; list of members of, 72; to advise continental dele
gates during recess of Provincial Congress, 259; resolves
to burn Savannah if captured by the enemy, 272; provided
for, 276; congratulates the President, 277.

Court House, troops to be removed from, 133.

Court of Ordinary, certain business of to be disposed of by
the President, 215.

Courvoisie, Francis, purchases confiscated land of John How
ard, 572.

Cowper, Basil, elected member of Council of Safety, 74.

Cowper, John, purchases confiscated land of Roger Kelsall,
484.

Cramer, Christopher, to be commissioned 1st Lieutenant, 137.

Crawford, Charles, appointed Justice of the Peace, 142.

INDEX. 643

Creighton, Alexander, relieved of penalty of confiscation and
banishment, 612; permitted to return and estate of amerced,
612; not permitted to hold office for fourteen years, 613.

Creitingdor, John, commissioned as 3d Lieutenant, 220.

Cronelburgh, Elizabeth, purchases confiscated land of Jonathan
Baucher, 522.

Croker, Mrs., ordered to appear before the Board, 162; permit
ted to reside at Rosedew Plantation, 163.

Crookshanks, Patrick, rights of citizenship granted to, 617.

Crown officers not to leave Savannah, 88.

Cubbage, George, purchases confiscated land of Thos. Young,
450-

Cuthbert, Ann, complaint of concerning new road, 177.

Cuthbert, Seth John, purchases confiscated land of Robert
Reid and wharf lot, 458; land of Peter Randolph, 544.

Cuthbert, Seth John, and William Moore, with armed force
to rescue Manson's servants, 84.

D

Darien Committee, declaration of, 38.

Dasher, Martin, commissioned as 2d Lieutenant, 220.

Davies, Edward, affidavit of, 216.

Davies, Myrick, elected President of Council, 409.

Davies, Edward, purchases confiscated land of Basil Cowper,

428.
Davis, Clementius, purchases confiscated land of John Glenn,

562.
Davis, Meredith, confiscated negroes of Jas. Seymore delivered

to, 604.

Davis, Mirick, appointed magistrate, 149.
Davis, Theophilus, commissioned as 2d Lieutenant, 220.
Day, Joseph, purchases confiscated land of Sir James Wright,

454-

Dean, Stephen, commissioned as Captain, 159.

Declaration of Independence, laid before Council of Safety
and to be proclaimed on Saturday, 174; to be read at As
sembly House, Liberty Pole and the Battery, 176.

Delegal, Philip, sentence of banishment revoked, 616.

Dell, James, to be commissioned 3d Lieutenant, 145.

Dell, Philip, permitted to go to St. Augustine, 167.

644 INDEX.

Delyon, Isaac, relieved of penalty of confiscation and banish
ment, 612; permitted to return and estate of amerced, 612;
not permitted to vote or hold office for fourteen years,

613-

Demere, Raymond, purchases confiscated land of David John-
stone, and house and lot, British property, in Savannah,
464.

Demerie, Raymond, purchases confiscated land of L. McGilliv-
ray, John Jameison and Henry Sharp, 526; land of Raymond
Demerie, Jr., purchases confiscated British property and
land of John Glenn, 550.

Demere, Raymond, Jr., relieved from the penalty of confiscation
and banishment, 612; permitted to return and estate of
amerced, 612; not permitted to vote or hold office for
fourteen years, 613.

Deveaux, Peter, purchases confiscated land of Basil Cowper,
428.

Dickenson, Stephen, to be commissioned ist Lieutenant, 145.

Dickinson, Lee, and Capt. Scott, each propose to raise and
bring into this state a troop of horse, 212.

Distribution of representation in Congress, 254.

Diwodie, James, purchases confiscated mill-stones of Sir James
Wright, 440.

Dixon, Robert, to be commissioned ist Lieutenant, 168.

Dody, Thomas, commissioned as ist Lieutenant, 72.

Dollar, John, purchases confiscated land of Wm. Dawson, and
a lot in Sunbury, 486.

Dooly, John, commissioned as Captain, 72.

Douglass, John, going at large dangerous to American liber
ties, 146; sentence of banishment revoked, 621.

Douglas, Samuel, going at large dangerous to American liberties, 146.
ties, 146.

Dowd, Thomas, commissioned as 3d Lieutenant, 71.

Downie, Isaac, relieved from penalty of confiscation and ban
ishment, 612; permitted to return and estate of amerced,
613-

Downs, George, commissioned Captain, 220.

Downs, Henry, appointed Justice of Peace, 142.

Dows, Gideon, appointed Magistrate, 149.

Drayton, Wm. Henry, appears before the Georgia Convention,
308; circulates in Georgia paper reflecting on state officials,
308; reward offered for arrest of, 308, 309.

INDEX. 645

Drayton, Stephen, to be commissioned as Lieutenant-Colonel,

87; ordered to arrest Pace and Hall, 96; ordered to make

draft of militia, 102.
Drayton, Stephen, and Wm. Ewen, commissioners to South

Carolina, report, 89.

Dukart, John, commissioned as Captain, 150.
Dunwoodie, Dr. James, chosen member of Council of Safety

instead of John Wereat, 168.
Dunwody, Doctor, takes seat as member of Council of Safety,

182.
Durgan, William, permitted to return and estate of amerced,

612.
Dysart, Cornelas, purchases confiscated land of Wm. Manson>

Peter Welsh, and Jas. Greyson, 578.

East-Florida, no reprisals in without orders from the Presi
dent, 148; expedition against favored by the Council, 183.

Ebenezer, militia on duty at, to be discharged, 126.

Edwards, Peter, going at large dangerous to American liberties,
146; sentence of banishment revoked, 621.

Elbert, Samuel, purchases confiscated land of Sir James Wright
and John Graham, 416.

Elbert, Samuel, to be commissioned as Colonel, 87; to guard
Causton's Bluff, 101; permitted to take bayonets and gun
locks at Ebenezer, 120; orders to, 145; elected Lieutenant-
Colonel of Continental regiment, 273.

Elbert, Samuel, Edward Telfair and Joseph Habersham, ap
pointed to purchase arms and ammunition, 85.

Elliott, John, commissioned as 3d Lieutenant, 94.

Emanuel, Levi, commissioned as 2d Lieutenant, 150.

Estates of persons attainted forfeited to the state, 332.

Evans, William, commissioned as Lieutenant, 189.

Ewen, William, President Council of Safety, proclamation of
ordering property owners to defend the city, 113; lays
before Provincial Congress correspondence and other
papers, 268.

Farley, Benjamin, commissioned as 2d Lieutenant, 159.
Farley, Joseph, going at large dangerous to American liberties,.

146.
Farley, Joseph, Jr., commissioned 2d Lieutenant, 160.

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Ferric, James, declared a free citizen of this state, 614.

Few, William, appointed Justice of Peace, 143; member of

Executive Council, 306; elected to Continental Congress,

410.
Fields, James, purchases confiscated land of James Hume and

John B. Maxwell, 470; lot in Sunbury, 494.
First Regiment, officers of to do patrol duty during Christmas

holidays, 80.
Fishburn, Benjamin, purchases confiscated lot of John Graham,

460.
Flack, James, purchases confiscated land of George Kingcaide,

536.
Fleming, James, purchases confiscated land of John Hume,

590.
Fleming, Mary, property and debts of her late husband, Thomas

Fleming, vested in, 617.

Fieri, John, to be commiss